Coming up this Sunday 4th December 2022  

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This Sunday we are going to be hearing from God’s word as Jodie McNeill preaches to us from 1 Corinthians Chapter 4:1-13 on ‘True Apostleship’.

After our 9am service we’ll be enjoying brunch together, and after our 4pm service we’ll be having dinner.

We’d love you to join us in-person if you’re able, or watch our livestream at watch.jamberooanglican.com.

If you’d like to submit your own question to be answered in church in the future, then simply hit ‘reply’ to this email.

We’re really looking forward to seeing you on Sunday!

1 Corinthians: A Loving Church – 7: God the Builder – 1 Corinthians 3:10-23 – Jodie McNeill – 27 November 2022

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The Great Australian Dream

We find our purpose in ________ things

There’s a building worth investing your ____ in

__________ are the building

_____ is now the temple

We are God’s ______ because Jesus is God’s temple

Paul laid the __________

Paul’s ability to build came from ___

The building must be done with great ____

Our materials need to stand the ____ of time

Paul is thinking of the test of _________ Day

There will be a ______ for the faithful builder

People will feel the pain of building _____ in God’s temple

The Christians are the very ______ of God

God’s building is ____

You’ll be held ___________

Your labour will not be in ____

The Corinthians just cared about __________

Quality building builds on the __________ of Jesus

Factions and infighting need to _________

They belong to ______ who belongs to God

Are you really ready to _____ God’s church?

Don’t waste your life

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Church news for the week beginning 27th November 2022

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OUR SERMON

This weekend we will be hearing from God’s word as Jodie McNeill preaches to us from 1 Corinthians 3:10-23 on ‘God The Builder’.

CHURCHILL CAROLS

This Christmas Eve 24th December we’d love you to bring your friends and family to carols! Come along at 5pm for a free sausage sizzle with all-age outdoor games, then at 6pm we’re gathering for an hour-long, all-age carols service on the lawn, followed by gingerbread cookies and supper, plus more outdoor games.

TOYS AND TUCKER

Please consider partnering with Anglicare for their annual Toys ’n’ Tucker appeal. Everything is online this year and it’s easy to help out. Gifts are purchased through the online store. Anglicare then collects the gifts and distributes them for you! You can purchase a gift from the online store here.

MORNING PRAYER

Join us at 7 am every day (except Sunday) at zoom.jamberooanglican.com as we gather to read the Bible, pray, and encourage each other as the new day dawns.

OCTOBER & NOVEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH

‘God’s Big Picture: Tracing the Storyline of the Bible’ By Vaughan Roberts.

Sixty-six books written by forty people over nearly 2,000 years, in two languages and several different genres. Sworn by in court, fought over by religious people, quoted in arguments. The Bible is clearly no ordinary book.

How can you begin to read and understand it as a whole?

This book gives you the big picture of the Bible! It provides both the encouragement and the tools to help you read the Bible with confidence and understanding. And it points you to the Bible’s supreme subject, Jesus Christ, and the salvation God offers through him. We have physical copies available for purchase over in the church hall. However, if you wish to order your own copy online or read via Kindle, you can do that here.

GIVING UPDATE

Each week we need to receive $6300.00 in order to meet our commitments. Last month, our average weekly giving was $5616.00, leaving a gap of $684.00. Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $218,400. Compared to that total we received $195,239, leaving a gap of $23,161.

Electronic giving is a great way to give! It helps us prayerfully plan our giving, and then the bank will help us keep that commitment, even when we may be unable to attend. To give by direct transfer then these are the NEW details. Account name: Jamberoo Anglican Church. Account number: 356831. BSB: 032605.

To give to our tax-deductible MTS Scholars Fund to support our apprentice youth minister, head to mts.com.au/give/jamberoo-anglican-church/

Coming up this Sunday 27th November 2022 

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This Sunday we are going to be hearing from God’s word as Jodie McNeill preaches to us from 1 Corinthians Chapter 3:10-23 on ‘God The Builder’.

After our 9am service we’ll be enjoying brunch together, and after our 4pm service we’ll be having dinner.

We’d love you to join us in-person if you’re able, or watch our livestream at watch.jamberooanglican.com.

If you’d like to submit your own question to be answered in church in the future, then simply hit ‘reply’ to this email.

Here are the questions that Jodie plans to answer for us on Sunday:

1 Is it selfish to be motivated by heavenly rewards?
2 How should we share our faith with someone who’s been traumatised by a church?
3 Did Jesus ever forget what he was going to say?
4 Is it OK to clap when we’re singing in church?
5 Why don’t churches clap after a song, like in a concert?
6 How should we pronounce, ‘Hebron?’
7 What are your favourite Colin Buchanan songs?
8 Why are the pews so hard and uncomfortable?

We’re really looking forward to seeing you on Sunday!

1 Corinthians: A Loving Church – 6: Warning Against Worldliness – 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 – Jodie McNeill – 20 November 2022

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The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill

A thin line between evangelism and ____ promotion

We want our church to ____ for God’s glory

Paul treated them like they weren’t _________ Jesus

The _____ and the Spirit

Their big ____ were jealousy and quarrelling

They’re not acting in a ______ way

They’re following different leaders and ________

Paul’s just a ________

Unchristian __________ is sad and ugly

They just did the ___ that God gave them

God made the plants ____

It’s not all about ___

God will ______ us

Our hard work is not in ____

It’s all about ___

We want God’s field to grow, for his _____

We’re all part of God’s eternal _______

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Church news for the week beginning 20th November 2022

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OUR SERMON

This weekend we will be hearing from God’s word as Jodie McNeill preaches to us from 1 Corinthians 3:1-9 on ‘Warning Against Worldliness’.

CHURCHILL CAROLS

This Christmas Eve 24th December we’d love you to bring your friends and family to carols! Come along at 5pm for a free sausage sizzle with all-age outdoor games, then at 6pm we’re gathering for an hour-long, all-age carols service on the lawn, followed by gingerbread cookies and supper, plus more outdoor games.

CORE THIS WEEK

Our final ‘Core’ leadership meeting will be held this Tuesday 22nd November at 7pm in the church hall.

ONE MUSIC FESTIVAL

Come along to a family friendly Christian music festival from 3pm – 9pm on Saturday November 26th at the Kiama Pavilion. You can find the link to purchase tickets here.

MORNING PRAYER

Join us at 7 am every day (except Sunday) at zoom.jamberooanglican.com as we gather to read the Bible, pray, and encourage each other as the new day dawns.

OCTOBER & NOVEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH

‘God’s Big Picture: Tracing the Storyline of the Bible’ By Vaughan Roberts.

Sixty-six books written by forty people over nearly 2,000 years, in two languages and several different genres. Sworn by in court, fought over by religious people, quoted in arguments. The Bible is clearly no ordinary book.

How can you begin to read and understand it as a whole?

This book gives you the big picture of the Bible! It provides both the encouragement and the tools to help you read the Bible with confidence and understanding. And it points you to the Bible’s supreme subject, Jesus Christ, and the salvation God offers through him. We have physical copies available for purchase over in the church hall. However, if you wish to order your own copy online or read via Kindle, you can do that here.

GIVING UPDATE

Each week we need to receive $6300.00 in order to meet our commitments. Last month, our average weekly giving was $5616.00, leaving a gap of $684.00. Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $218,400. Compared to that total we received $195,239, leaving a gap of $23,161.

Electronic giving is a great way to give! It helps us prayerfully plan our giving, and then the bank will help us keep that commitment, even when we may be unable to attend. To give by direct transfer then these are the NEW details. Account name: Jamberoo Anglican Church. Account number: 356831. BSB: 032605.

To give to our tax-deductible MTS Scholars Fund to support our apprentice youth minister, head to mts.com.au/give/jamberoo-anglican-church/

The Blessing of Baptism

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Baptism is a special washing of water that is a sign of God’s washing away of our sin that comes from believing in the death of Jesus and his resurrection.

Baptism doesn’t save someone from their sin but it does signify that a person is part of the household of God, a member of the church.

When a person becomes a Christian when they are older than a child, they can declare their own faith when they are baptised before the church.

But, when an infant is born into a family with a believing parent, we baptise those babies to show they are a member of the church because they are in a household of Christian parents.

When those infants grow older, we pray that they will own their own faith, and declare it publicly at a ‘Confirmation’ service.

The New Testament shows a close connection between the circumcision of baby boys in the Old Covenant with the baptism of babies in the New Covenant (see Colossians 2:11-12).

There is also a statement in 1 Corinthians 7:14 that says that children of an unbelieving father are considered to be “sanctified.”

Mandy and I baptised our four children when they were babies so that we could receive this wonderful sign from Jesus that declares to the church that our children are Christians because they’re born to Christian parents.

We’ve always spoken of our children as Christians, even before they could walk or talk, and we’ve prayed that our children would one day receive all the benefits of what their baptism points to when they are able to own that faith when they are older.

So, we haven’t prayed that our kids would grow up to become Christians, but instead have prayed that they’d grow up to own their faith, which they publicly declared at their Confirmation service.

If you or a member of your family would like to be baptised, then I’d love to chat with you to make a time for this special event in the life of our church.

JODIE McNEILL

(Photo credit: Colin Bowern via Flickr.com)

Coming up this Sunday 20th November 2022

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This Sunday we are going to be hearing from God’s word as Jodie McNeill preaches to us from 1 Corinthians Chapter 3:1-9 on ‘Warning Against Wordliness’.

After our 9am service we’ll be enjoying brunch together, and after our 4pm service we’ll be having dinner.

This Sunday at 4pm is the infant baptism of Jeremy Beasley. We’re looking forward to many guests and the opportunity to celebrate this occasion with the Beasley family.

We’d love you to join us in-person if you’re able, or watch our livestream at watch.jamberooanglican.com.

If you’d like to submit your own question to be answered in church in the future, then simply hit ‘reply’ to this email.

Here are the questions that Jodie plans to answer for us on Sunday:

1 Since God is everywhere, does that mean heaven is everywhere?
2 Where was Jesus after he died, before he was raised?
3 What does 1 Corinthians 2:14b mean?
4 If people need the Holy Spirit to understand God, how does evangelism work?
5 Does the Holy Spirit always live in God’s chosen people, even before they follow him?
6 Does God rule those who don’t believe in him?
7 Are angels specially chosen by God?
8 How did God get two of every animal to where Noah was?
9 Since the Bible ends with the word ‘Amen’ does that mean it’s a prayer for the future?
10 Should our earthly family or our church family take priority?

We’re really looking forward to seeing you on Sunday!

1 Corinthians: A Loving Church – 5: Spiritual Wisdom – 1 Corinthians 2:6-16 – Jodie McNeill – 13 November 2022

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Through their eyes

There are so many _________ worldviews

It’s loving to see the _____ through others’ eyes

There are two different kinds of ______

God wants us to become more ______

God has revealed ____ things to everyone

The leadership of ______ will soon be forgotten

One world of ______ will win and the other lose

God’s mystery is his special ____

The rulers of the _____ rejected and executed Jesus

God’s grace is truly _______

We know what God is ________ because he tells us

God gives us his ______ so we can know grace

The Holy Spirit gives us the _____ about God

We are all naturally born as _______ of God

We trust in Jesus because the Spirit _______ him

Unspiritual people can’t truly _____ spiritual people

We have the ____ of Christ

Come behold the wondrous mystery

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Church news for the week beginning 13th November 2022  

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OUR SERMON

This weekend we will be hearing from God’s word as Jodie McNeill preaches to us from 1 Corinthians 2:6-16 on ‘Spiritual Wisdom’.

CHURCHILL CAROLS

This Christmas Eve 24th December we’d love you to bring your friends and family to carols! Come along at 5pm for a free sausage sizzle with all-age outdoor games, then at 6pm we’re gathering for an hour-long, all-age carols service on the lawn, followed by gingerbread cookies and supper, plus more outdoor games.

ONE MUSIC FESTIVAL

Come along to a family friendly Christian music festival from 3pm – 9pm on Saturday November 26th at the Kiama Pavilion. You can find the link to purchase tickets here.

WOMENS’ TEACHING DAY

Join the women of our church today for a special day of teaching and fellowship from 10 am to 2 pm at St Luke Anglican, Berry. It’s not late to come along! Please call Gemma on 0414425639 if you would like to join them today.

MORNING PRAYER

Join us at 7 am every day (except Sunday) at zoom.jamberooanglican.com as we gather to read the Bible, pray, and encourage each other as the new day dawns.

OCTOBER & NOVEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH

‘God’s Big Picture: Tracing the Storyline of the Bible’ By Vaughan Roberts.

Sixty-six books written by forty people over nearly 2,000 years, in two languages and several different genres. Sworn by in court, fought over by religious people, quoted in arguments. The Bible is clearly no ordinary book.

How can you begin to read and understand it as a whole?

This book gives you the big picture of the Bible! It provides both the encouragement and the tools to help you read the Bible with confidence and understanding. And it points you to the Bible’s supreme subject, Jesus Christ, and the salvation God offers through him. We have physical copies available for purchase over in the church hall. However, if you wish to order your own copy online or read via Kindle, you can do that here.

GIVING UPDATE

Each week we need to receive $6300.00 in order to meet our commitments. Last month, our average weekly giving was $5616.00, leaving a gap of $684.00. Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $218,400. Compared to that total we received $195,239, leaving a gap of $23,161.

Electronic giving is a great way to give! It helps us prayerfully plan our giving, and then the bank will help us keep that commitment, even when we may be unable to attend. To give by direct transfer then these are the NEW details. Account name: Jamberoo Anglican Church. Account number: 356831. BSB: 032605.

To give to our tax-deductible MTS Scholars Fund to support our apprentice youth minister, head to mts.com.au/give/jamberoo-anglican-church/