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01 September 2024

LIKE THE EARLY CHURCH - WE CAN MEET IN HOMES
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LOCAL BBP UPDATES - PĀTAKA KAI - FOOD PANTRY DEDICATION
We had a lovely crowd from the Browns Bay community who gathered together on Monday for the opening of the Community Food Pantry. Have a look at it sometime and the kinds of supplies requested. At the ceremony I was asked to pray and then dedicate the Pantry. Here are the words of the dedication: We ded- icate this pantry and this ground for this special use. May all who come here and leave again be protected from all harm, as they feel free to take what they need and give what they can for the welfare and enrichment of all our lives together. May this be a sign and visible beacon showing our care, compassion, and concern for one another, and our ongoing commitment to show mercy, act justly and walk humbly before God. Amen.

JAMES - WHO IS HE AND WHAT IS HIS LETTER ABOUT?
We begin a new series today looking at the Epistle of James. It can get confusing to figure out how many men called James appear in the New Testament. There are three key Jameses which we will focus on, leaving out James the younger, and James the father of Judas. Here they are:

1. We meet James and his brother John, those enthusiastic and passionate siblings who with Peter form Jesus’ inner circle early on in the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark and Luke’s written versions of the gospel story). They witness the Transfiguration of Jesus for example. This James is the only one of the apostles whose martyrdom is mentioned in the New Testament (in Acts 12:2 we read of his death by Herod Agrippa II, grandson of Herod the Great).
2. The next James is James the son of Alpheus, the ninth of the original twelve. I think we forget sometimes that there were two Jameses, two Judases and two Simons in the original disciple group. Add Peter and his brother Andrew, Matthew and Thaddeus, Philip and Thomas, and you will remember all twelve names for the next quiz where someone asks who they were.
3. The James who writes this letter is James the brother of Jesus (Mark 6:3), who originally didn’t believe in him (John 7:5) but later did come to faith, and emerges as the leader of the church in Jerusalem (Acts 15:12-20), a witness to the resurrection (1 Cor 15:7) and another apostle like Paul outside of the original twelve (Gal 1:19). He makes an interesting and important contribution to the New Testament canon and teaching.

   The name James is the NT version of Jacob in the OT. So too in Afrikaans and other related languages where he is Jacobus. And he would have been quite pleased with our Community pantry. And a contemporary word - James Hulm asked me to thank you all for his 21st birthday wishes. Blessings, Robin.

   Blessings,
   
   Robin
   
   

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