This weekend we will be hearing from God’s word as Jodie McNeill preaches to us from Daniel Chapter 11 to 12.
CARPARK RESURFACING PROJECT
We give thanks to God for the completion of the carpark resurfacing project!
SYNOD PRESENTATION
On Monday 12th September at 5pm at Sydney Synod we’ll be moving a motion to become a full parish…after 46 years! If you’d like to join the public gallery for this event, chat to Jodie for details.
NATIONAL GRANDPARENTS CONFERENCE
This conference is designed to help grandparents be encouraged and inspired to invest in the lives of their grandchildren in ways that only grandparents can. Come along on Sat 17th Sep 9:00 am – 4:30 pm at Figtree Anglican Church. See Gemma Bartlett if you’re interested in going with her. Head to the events page on our website for more details and information on how to register.
SUPPORT MAF THIS FATHER’S DAY
This Father’s Day consider supporting Mission Aviation Fellowship by donating a gift. There is a variety of gifts to choose from over in the church hall. Please visit their website for more information on how to support this ministry.
MORNING PRAYER
Join us at 7am 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.
AUGUST & SEPTEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH
‘The World Next Door: A short guide to the Christian Faith’ By Rory Shiner & Peter Orr. This book is our best shot at commending the Christian message to our friends and neighbours. It’s driven by the universal human instinct to increase the joy of finding a good thing by sharing it with others. We both think we’ve found a good thing‚ the best thing‚ in finding God through Jesus. We want to share it. The World Next Door invites you into a world where Jesus Christ reigns supreme and where lives are changed forever. 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 $5112.00, leaving a gap of $1188.00. Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $163,800. Compared to that total we received $144,998, leaving a gap of $18,802.
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.
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At the last census, the number of Australians who said they associated with Christianity was over 11 million people… that’s 44% of Aussies.
Now the big news was that it was a million less than five years before, with the largest decrease in your age bracket… the 18 to 25 year olds.
But even though there are many religious people around, we’re still pretty shy about revealing our faith.
Just before Covid hit, there was a survey of 54,000 people by the ABC.
They surveyed all sorts of different things, but one of them was their attitude to religion.
Journalist Annabel Crabb analysed the results and said that 60 per cent of Australians would prefer that people keep their religious views to themselves.
What’s more, almost half of all religious people, “agreed that religion should be a hush-hush affair.”
But not only was religion something that people wanted to keep quiet.
It also didn’t seem to have any real impact on peoples’ lives.
That same journalist went on to say that, “when given a list of eight attributes and asked which was most central to the respondent’s sense of self and identity, Australians placed religion stone-cold, motherless last.”
And what’s more, Crabb said that, “only 15 percent of respondents thought the country would be better off if more people were religious”.
And to top it off, she observed that, “one of the survey’s most striking findings is the poor esteem in which religious leaders are held.”
Even though four out of ten people identified with a Christian religion, most Aussies don’t think that religion matters.
And that’s not really surprising, is it?
But that’s our challenge, because we are amongst the 15 percent who think that our country would be better off if more people knew Jesus.
And that’s why we’re praying that each person in our village, valley, and region would know how to follow Jesus and why it matters.
This weekend we are going to be hearing from God’s word as Jodie McNeill preaches to us from Daniel Chapter 11 & 12.
After our 5pm Saturday service we’ll be having dinner, and after our 9am Sunday service we’ll be enjoying brunch together.
We’d love you to join us in-person if you’re able, or watch our livestream at watch.jamberooanglican.com.
These are the questions that Jodie plans to answer this weekend during church:
1 How does John 9 inform us through our sufferings? 2 How can we know if we will recognise each other in heaven? 3 Why did Jodie skip the end of chapter 9? 4 Why is Satan referred to only as ‘prince’ and not ‘king’? 5 Why does the date in Daniel 10 use a post-Jesus calendar? 6 Did it hurt Jesus when he was nailed to the cross? 7 What does the name ‘Jesus’ mean? 8 Are we just like God in heaven? 9 Is there any rhyming poetry in the original bible language? 10 How can we use Moussa’s sermon to evangelise others?
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 this weekend!
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This weekend we will be hearing from God’s word as Jodie McNeill preaches to us from Daniel Chapter 10.
GONG MEN’S DAY 2022
We would love you to come along on Saturday 3rd Sep from 9am to 1:30pm as men from our region gather together in fellowship to spend time in God’s word. Head to the events page on our website for more details and information on how to register.
CARPARK RESURFACING PROJECT
We give thanks to God for the great progress made on the carpark resurfacing this week, now that the excavations, rolling and spray sealing has been completed. We look forward to seeing the final stage of hot mix completed this coming week!
SYNOD PRESENTATION
On Monday 12th September at 5pm at Sydney Synod we’ll be moving a motion to become a full parish…after 46 years! If you’d like to join the public gallery for this event, chat to Jodie for details.
NATIONAL GRANDPARENTS CONFERENCE
This conference is designed to help grandparents be encouraged and inspired to invest in the lives of their grandchildren in ways that only grandparents can. Come along on Sat 17th Sep 9:00 am – 4:30 pm at Figtree Anglican Church. See Gemma Bartlett if you’re interested in going with her. Head to the events page on our website for more details and information on how to register.
SUPPORT MAF THIS FATHER’S DAY
This Father’s Day consider supporting Mission Aviation Fellowship by donating a gift. There is a variety of gifts to choose from over in the church hall. Please visit their website for more information on how to support this ministry.
MORNING PRAYER
Join us at 7am 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.
AUGUST & SEPTEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH
‘The World Next Door: A short guide to the Christian Faith’ By Rory Shiner & Peter Orr. This book is our best shot at commending the Christian message to our friends and neighbours. It’s driven by the universal human instinct to increase the joy of finding a good thing by sharing it with others. We both think we’ve found a good thing‚ the best thing‚ in finding God through Jesus. We want to share it. The World Next Door invites you into a world where Jesus Christ reigns supreme and where lives are changed forever. 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 $5112.00, leaving a gap of $1188.00. Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $163,800. Compared to that total we received $144,998, leaving a gap of $18,802.
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.
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It’s surprising to read how many times the Bible speaks of the need for God’s people to be united, together, as one.
Perhaps the most vivid expression of this is seen in the prayer by Jesus to the father on the night before he died.
In John chapter 17, Jesus says:
Now I am departing from the world; they are staying in this world, but I am coming to you. Holy Father, you have given me your name; now protect them by the power of your name so that they will be united just as we are. (verse 11)
As good as it is to strive for unity, we must remember that our unity is a gift from God in response to the prayers of Jesus to the father.
What’s more, the unity that Christians enjoy must be true to who God is, which means that it must be based on his true word.
Yet the closer we stand to God’s word, the further we’ll be from the world.
For Jesus then says to the father:
I have given them your word. And the world hates them because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world. (verse 14)
So, the more we’re united with Jesus, the less we’ll be united with the world.
This means that when people try and change the church to be like the world, they’ve completely missed the point… and may well have missed the truth.
I give thanks to God for the unity we enjoy as a church as we are united together in Christ.
May his Spirit continue to lead us to obey his wonderful word, so that we might boldly tell our village, valley and region how to follow Jesus and why it matters… even when people find it hard to follow Christ.
JODIE McNEILL
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This weekend we are going to be hearing from God’s word as Jodie McNeill preaches to us from Daniel Chapter 10.
After our 5pm Saturday service we’ll be having dinner, and after our 9am Sunday service we’ll be enjoying brunch together.
We’d love you to join us in-person if you’re able, or watch our livestream at watch.jamberooanglican.com.
These are the questions that Jodie plans to answer this weekend during church:
1 Why does the Apostles Creed sometimes say ‘catholic’ church? 2 As in Daniel 9, do our own sufferings today relate to our own sins? 3 How does John 9 inform us through our sufferings? 4 Does a parent sin when they punish their child? 5 If Jesus defeated Satan, why do so many people reject Christ? 6 How do we know when the Holy Spirit is talking to us? 7 Will we see Adam and Eve in heaven? 8 Does Jesus ever sleep? 9 Why didn’t we do a better job of promoting KCC Basecamp?
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 this weekend!
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This weekend we will be hearing from God’s word as Moussa Ghazal preaches to us from Luke 8:40-56.
GONG MEN’S DAY 2022
We would love you to come along on Saturday 3rd Sep from 9am to 1:30pm as men from our region gather together in fellowship to spend time in God’s word. Head to the events page on our website for more details and information on how to register.
NATIONAL GRANDPARENTS CONFERENCE
This conference is designed to help grandparents be encouraged and inspired to invest in the lives of their grandchildren in ways that only grandparents can. Come along on Sat 17th Sep 9:00 am – 4:30 pm at Figtree Anglican Church. See Gemma Bartlett if you’re interested in going with her. Head to the events page on our website for more details and information on how to register.
SUPPORT MAF THIS FATHER’S DAY
This Father’s Day consider supporting Mission Aviation Fellowship by donating a gift. There is a variety of gifts to choose from over in the church hall. Please visit their website for more information on how to support this ministry.
MORNING PRAYER
Join us at 7am 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.
AUGUST & SEPTEMBER BOOK OF THE MONTH
‘The World Next Door: A short guide to the Christian Faith’ By Rory Shiner & Peter Orr. This book is our best shot at commending the Christian message to our friends and neighbours. It’s driven by the universal human instinct to increase the joy of finding a good thing by sharing it with others. We both think we’ve found a good thing‚ the best thing‚ in finding God through Jesus. We want to share it. The World Next Door invites you into a world where Jesus Christ reigns supreme and where lives are changed forever. 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 $5112.00, leaving a gap of $1188.00. Up to the end of the last calendar month we needed to have received $163,800. Compared to that total we received $144,998, leaving a gap of $18,802.
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.
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Thank you for your prayers for this week’s Gafcon Australasia Conference in Canberra, where I had the joy of leading the team of organisers as we gathered over 360 people from around Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands to be encouraged to stand firm in the gospel, and to preach Christ faithfully to the nations.
At the conference, the all-new Diocese of the Southern Cross was announced, and our former Archbishop Glenn Davies was installed as the interim bishop.
It would be so much better if every one of the 23 dioceses of the Anglican Church of Australia was led by a bishop who delighted in and defended the teaching of the word of God, including the Bible’s doctrine of marriage and human sexuality.
But some of these dioceses are led by bishops who not only welcome same-sex marriage for Christians, but also actively frustrate their own ministers who don’t join them in embracing that sin.
However our own Diocese of Sydney has no intention of leaving the Anglican Church of Australia, which means that this development has no effect on any of our parishes, schools or organisations.
Indeed, as our Archbishop Kanishka Raffel confirmed, “we are committed to the reform of the Anglican Church of Australia from within our existing ecclesial structures, including the General Synod.”
Further, he stated that the all-new Diocese of the Southern Cross has been set up for churches and ministers, “who have left their diocese because they cannot in good conscience accept the authority of those who have departed from the teaching of Christ.
“It is a sadness that this new Diocese has become necessary,” reflects Archbishop Raffel, “but I extend the hand of fellowship to the Diocese of the Southern Cross and may God bless Bishop Davies and his work.”
JODIE McNEILL
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