It’s all about
Jesus the saviour of the world

Jesus of Nazareth poses a question and a challenge two thousand years after his lifetime.  The question is fairly simple: who exactly was he? This includes the questions, what did he think he was up to? What did he do and say, why was he killed, and did he rise from the dead? The challenge is likewise fairly simple: since he called people to follow him, since people have been trying to do that ever since, what might ‘following him’ entail? Tom Wright – Simple Jesus

So . . .

as we enter a new year our teaching focus will be ‘Fix our eyes on Jesus’ and we will journey through Mark’s Gospel together to do this. Mark‘s gospel is one of the first accounts of the life of Jesus, with scholars dating his writings approximately 35 to 40 years after Jesus’s ascension. Mark, was a co-worker with Paul and a close partner with Peter, he collected eyewitness accounts to give an account of Jesus’s words and actions to declare ‘The good news about Jesus the Messiah, the son of God’ Mark 1 v1 Each Sunday we will read the relevant chapter from Mark’s Gospel so by the time we reach Resurrection  Sunday we have heard the whole Gospel that declares throughout its pages the incredible Good News of Jesus.  Alongside this, each week there will be a suggested chapter which you can meditate upon for the whole week, you may want to use the following pattern as you come to the passage each day:

READ the chapter several times
REFLECT on the chapter in light of ‘fixing your eyes on Jesus’
PRAY that the Holy Spirit aligns your heart with what is at the heart of the chapter
PAUSE and consider what questions or actions you are to carry through the day n Journal your thoughts, questions and how God is speaking to you  We welcome your insights and would appreciate hearing about the inspirations and lessons gained from your reflections on this material. Please share these with
one of the Pastors.