Browns Bay Presbyterian Church

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

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PASTORAL SUPPORT

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.

You'll find more information about us from the links on the menu on the left.

From the Pastor’s pen:

Welcome to BBP Family Church’s weekly newsletter.
Prayer is available daily through the prayer chain and email list.

If you click on Readings and Vids for each week’s readings are in English or Korean/English parallel when you click on the Reference, Footnotes link.

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28 July 2024

LIKE THE EARLY CHURCH - WE CAN MEET IN HOMES
I encourage you to join one. Speak to Dave, Val or Rob.

REFLECTION: PAUL’S LETTER TO THE EPHESIANS - THE MYSTERY REVEALED
We are in week three of our series on Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. So far we have looked at the many blessings we all have in Christ: redeemed, chosen and adopted, sealed by the Holy Spirit who guaran- tees the fulness of our future inheritance, and saved by grace through faith - the gift of God is the whole package of our being restored into the relationship we were meant to have from the beginning. We begin to reflect the image of Christ (the king), and we are Christ to the world in our acts of service. We have peace, full access to the Father in prayer, and are being built into a new temple - we are living stones in this spiritual building. This is not only about us or for us as individuals, however. The mystery, or the secret (Tom Wright’s translation) is already spoken of in Ephesians 1:7-10. “In the king, and through his blood, we have deliverance – that is, our sins have been forgiven – through the wealth of his grace 8 which he lavished on us. Yes, with all wisdom and insight 9 he has made known to us the secret of his purpose, just as he wanted it to be and set it forward in him 10 as a blueprint for when the time was ripe. His plan was to sum up the whole cosmos in the king – yes, everything in heaven and on earth, in him.” (The Kingdom New Testament). Ephesians 1:9 in the NIV reads: “he made known to us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure.” Today we will explore this mystery revealed, and the revelation of the “manifold wisdom of God” Paul describes.

THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSION INTO ABUSE IN CARE
You will no doubt be aware of the release of this report this week, and the grim reading it makes. Rev Dr Stuart Lange of the NZ Christian Network has a helpful article here: https://nzchristiannetwork.org.nz/an-initial-christian- response-to-the-report-of-the-royal-commission-into-abuse-in-care/ This includes a call for us to pray about all this, which I commend to you:

that Government and churches may fully face the awful truth of what happened;
that perpetrators may find true repentance and remorse for what they did;
that, by the grace of God, many survivors may experience some healing;
that we might all be extremely careful to protect the safety and wellbeing of all those under our care.

Grace and peace to you all.

Robin

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)