Box Hill Baptist Church
Welcome to our church community.Archive for November, 2009
22 November 2009
This amazing sculpture weaving of Mariette’s offers us another image – of threads woven together to form a beautiful bird soaring high, or perhaps a harp offering a melody. Each thread is part of the whole. Take one away and the weaving is diminished. Together they are beautiful, a creative flow that offers an picture of beauty and harmony.
That is what we look like when we work together. We have a common call to work together as the body of Christ. That means, sharing a gospel, a good news of serving, speaking, shouting a message of justice and love to the ends of the earth. And it means us doing that as loudly, creatively, excitingly, authentically as we can here in Box Hill for as long as we are called to do so!
8 November 2009
Over this next couple of weeks, you are being asked about where you might consider putting your creative energy within the context of this community. Over the years, we have danced a balancing jig around releasing people from the burden or obligation to ‘do things’. We do not expect any body to ‘have’ to do anything. And, on the other hand, we recognize that engagement and involvement, the invitation to participate and being involved, is actually a really important part of belonging – freely, without obligation. That is to respond to the call of being who we are fully in this place. So, in this little dance that we do here, I hope that you can find the space to participate, freely, playfully, seriously, intentionally, with integrity. I hope you find the space to be involved as you are able.
1 November 2009
The image of Ruth and Naomi invites us to consider the tender relationships where we find safety and nourishment to face the journey ahead. What a blessing when such relationships come our way. Let us give thanks :
God, who is tenderly present to us, We come as those who, in Jesus Christ, are open to you in this time and place.
We are the people who heal each other,
Who grow strong together,
Who name the truth as we perceive it,
Who know what it means to grow as we journey together.
We are a community who move towards a common dream
recognizing new moments of faith experience
in each other gathered here, and in others who journey along with us.
Go as the loved children of God into the world.
Live in love with one another
that the world may believe
the Christ has come.
Amen
