 No matter what walk of life you have come from or what your own history is, there is a place and a purpose which God has for you. It is a purpose that begins with knowing Jesus - because all of God’s purposes begin and end with Jesus. And it is a purpose that will continue for you with Jesus in this life and beyond. At St. John’s we meet to encourage one another as we find our common purpose in Jesus Christ. We learn from the Bible how to find life with Christ and how to live so we can please him. St. John’s Cathedral encompasses an extraordinary diversity of community life. Across every age group and across the cultures that make our city – our goal is to know Christ and to make him known.
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From the Senior Minister, Bruce Morrison The New Year is always a good time to pause and get in touch with who we have become. Am I deliberately reshaping my character to be like Jesus or am I letting the world conform my character to its shape? We are under constant pressure to conform to the world. Often sheer business of life doesn’t allow us time to think the big questions. We run from one day to the next taking care of the immediate necessities without thought for who we are becoming in the process. But Jesus is much more concerned with who I am than with what I have done. What I have done will be left behind. Who I am is what I take with me into eternity.The trouble is that who I am is being constantly shaped by what I am doing! You know the old saying: ‘Sow and act… reap a habit. Sow a habit… reap a character. Sow a character… reap a destiny’. So we have to sow the acts that will produce right habits and character. On the negative side we have to stop doing the things that produce evil habits and character.There are four fundamentals of Christian living. Bible reading and prayer keep us in a right relationship with God. Fellowship and witness (evangelism) keep us in a right relationship with other people. The first two have vertical dimension and the second two have a horizontal dimension. If we sow these acts then they will become a habit. If we sow this habit through our lives it will produce a godly character. Sow that character and you have a wonderful destiny.Am I sowing the acts, habits and character to reap a destiny of eternal life with Jesus? Could there be a more important question to ask? Well, actually there is one! At least, there is a prior question. Am I ‘in Christ’? In other words, am I living in a real relationship with the risen Jesus? Have I committed my life to following Jesus and given myself up to him? Have I found an assurance of the forgiveness of my sins because I know that Jesus is mine and I am his? These questions are the starting point. If I can’t answer these questions with confidence in the affirmative then I haven’t found the right road of life to walk down and no matter how good my habits are they won’t help me. |
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