As you know Matt is the teaching pastor at Takanini Community Church in Auckland. Our church has decided to try holding a Messy Church service once a month. The format is not like traditional church. It involves breakfast, a relaxed lounge-style teaching, family friendly craft tables and an MandM corner – complete with M&M’s and MandM; the idea is that anyone who wants to raise questions about Christianity can hang with Matt and I and eat M&M’s (and drink coffee, I will be drinking coffee) while the others do craft.
So bring your kids and come along to 160 Great South Road Takanini, South Auckland this Sunday 27 October 2013:
8:50 Doors open
9:00 -9:45 Breakfast in hall ($1 per person – Breakfast Menu)
9:45-10:00 Teaching in lounge
10:00-10:50 Craft Time
10:50-11:00 Close in lounge
A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
Puzzle thought for this month’s messy church is : Throughout the Bible, God uses the shepherd as an example of a good leader and as an example of how he cares for us. This seems a strange choice because shepherds do eat sheep!
Discuss.
I’d love to come but it’s a little too far away from Vancouver . . .