From Religion to Faith...

Hey friends - a huge weekend for The Local this weekend and plenty of opportunities to put faith into action again. From the working bee painting the Kaha room at the House and cooking another batch of sixty (!!!!) community meals to be given to anyone in need, to delivering free furniture and whiteware to those in need...it was great to see. I've always love the Salvation Army's slogan of "Christianity with the sleeves rolled up" - it was great to see that in practice this weekend.

This morning we had a lovely chat about the difference between real Christian faith (Christ centred...God's search for man) and religion (man centred...our search for God).

Natasha introduced us to a thought provoking song by Casting Crowns, that you can view below.

We followed that with a clip Leonard found by Jefferson Bethke which is a spoken word poem titled "Why I hate religion, but love Jesus." He has some awesome things to say - it might take a couple of listens to soak it in but it's well worth it. 

We followed that with communion together - reminding ourselves that we've each contributed to Jesus' death on the cross and owning that together - but then also celebrating that we do have a clean slate and he didn't stay dead. He's not trapped in the past and neither are we - a great thing to celebrate over lunch together!

Bless you team - see you next week when we have a look at some of the patterns we see in scripture each time Satan gets a speaking part and how we can recognise those patterns to protect our relationships together.