Church notes - 21st June 2020

21st June
Announcements - Services resuming from 5th July - albiet with caveats (No more than 100 people, no live singing and no morning tea.)
Prayer: For Scripture teaching at a local school - Dubbo West Public. Restrictions mean that most of the people who had been teaching Scripture at the beginning of the year are no longer able to. Pray that Scripture teaching will be able to continue.
Psalm 5:3

Luke 19:1 - 10
Ephesians 5:15 - 21

Lockdown
Little complaints from the Church community. More time to spend with God and family.
But what changes have been made?
What are the priorities for your life?

Ephesians 5:15, 16
Making the most of every opportunity
Redeeming the time.
Don't accept the agenda of our culture.

Endemic anxiety amongst Australians
Anxiety often bubbles over into anger.

We are more socially fragmented, more anxious, more depressed, more overweight, more medicated, deeper in debt and increasingly addicted - whether to our digital devices, drugs, pornography or 'stuff' - Hugh MacKay

We have a limited opportunity to redeem the time and design a life a reflects our true priorities, not a life that has randomly evolved into a unsustainable evolution of other people's demands.

Renewing our hearts. Jesus needs to be at the centre. It is about a relationship with God.
Relational renewal. People want to spend time with those they are in relationship with. We want to spend time with Him.

Society says; do what you want!
The 'Seven Deadly Sins' have become virtues. The advertising industry is a case in point!

Repent and live as God wants us to.
Luke 19:8