Browns Bay Presbyterian Church

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Services are held here at Anzac Rd & are streamed live to YouTube.

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For counselling and support or other church enquiries contact Robin Palmer.

Prayer requests can be sent to office for the church prayer groups to pray for you.

We will continue to pray that all in our community will cope with this new way of life, and be able to find new ways of being a faith community. We can do this!

Every blessing,

Robin
(Pastor)

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With Gods help we can get through this.

We are a community church comprised of people of all ages and various cultures. Our desire is to help people find and follow Jesus. This means we are discovering what it means to love God, love one another and love the community around about us.

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From the Pastor’s pen:

17 May 2026

Paul – Living in Christ and having the Mindset of Christ
The Christian identity is described in several ways, including the new birth (see John 3) and adoption by God as children (see Romans 8:15; Ephesians 1:5). Also, as I mentioned last week, we are in Christ. (See 2 Cor 5:17: Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!) Romans 8:1 helps too: Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus. It’s a significant term because “in Christ” we participate in his act of salvation. We die with him (he dies in our place) and we are raised with him (see Romans 6:1-5).

With this in mind, let’s look at what Paul writes later in Philippians 3:7 – Join with others in following my example, brothers, and take note of those who live according to the pattern we gave you. If we copy or imitate Paul’s example here as he suggests, everything else becomes secondary to this one thing of being “in Christ” and of knowing this Jesus. “In Christ” we find ourselves safe too in our Christian identity. Paul’s other identities are surrendered to this single identity as a Christian.

The Philippian context is useful here. The people who lived in Philippi were Roman citizens. They valued that but did not want to go back to Rome. They stayed in the colony called Philippi - and wanted it to be like Rome. They liked the security and stability, the infrastructure etc. They were safe in Caesar’s province. He was their saviour. He oversaw their world and provided the Pax Romana - Roman peace.

But now some Philippians were becoming believers with a new citizenship, saviour and King. God’s Kingdom on earth brought a new and better peace – the shalom of God on earth lining up with the perfection of heaven. This is supported by the Lord’s prayer where this realignment is reflected in the opening lines: “This, then, is how you should pray: “‘Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name, your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven (Matthew 6:9-10).

Looking at today’s readings, Christ (Messiah) Jesus sets the standard and pattern of this new Kingdom, and we are to have his mindset and way of thinking. In our message today we will look at three attitudes and behaviours that should be ours: oneness, lowliness and helpfulness.

Grace and peace.

Robin.

BBP - St Cuthbert’s Presbyterian History

The Original Building became the Hall The first place of worship in Browns Bay was built in 1950, and the building moved to the current site during the ministry of the Rev E Walsh. The new worship centre was built in 1965, and the old one became the hall. This original building was demolished in July 2004 to make room for the hall/new family centre.

The new St Cuthbert’s Building c 1980 James Hackshaw, the architect who designed the 1965 building, also designed many public buildings including various Roman Catholic schools and their associated churches. The St Cuthbert’s building was his only Protestant church design. The administration section, foyer and offices were added later.

The original East Coast Presbyterian Parish created in 1938 and pioneered by the Rev Morgan Richards extended from Castor Bay to Silverdale. Mairangi Bay became the centre of the parish in 1944, and the Browns Bay/Torbay Parish which St Cuthbert’s was part of was separated out of that in the late 1950s.

Recorded Services and Resources are here on our website.

On the menu on the left side of the screen you can click on
Readings & Vids to find each week's readings in English or Korean/English parallel. Previous services and readings are also found there. There are pages with each week’s newsletter, rosters and various other resources On the Browns Bay Presbyterian website. See https://bbpsermons.wordpress.com/ for written sermon texts.

‘And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen his glory,
glory as of the only Son from the Father, full of grace and truth’ (1:14)