This week guest speaker Jonathan Rankin finishes our Matter, matter series looking at what it is to be an earthy church - that is, a church of time and space.
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This week Dan interviews Michelle Kennedy, founder of Six Generations, and discuss God’s good creation of the earth, our God-given job of stewarding it, some reflections on how we are doing at that and how we need to in the future.
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This week Alisha took us through views of body image, concepts of beauty and how we can practice being better stewards of expressing ourselves.
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As human beings we have a need for fuel and an enjoyment of what we taste. God has gifted us the provision for these core needs. In a culture of over indulging and binging, how do we live with respect, gratitude and care for what we consume?
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Paul’s key point on not being dualistic comes in hot amongst a point about what it means to be sexual beings. How does it look to be a sexual being when we are living with an integrated body and spirit?
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The incarnation of Christ affirms the body, and our bodies have been made in the image of God, then how do we work with all the aspects of being human - a body with emotions to feel and a mind to think?
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What does it mean to be the temple of the Holy Spirit? If matter is good, then we have some rewiring to do. Creation has been made like a temple, with a trajectory and an order, and we are to partner with God to enjoy working in it and steward it as image bearers – but we are not Lord over it.
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As we being our series, we get our bearings for what looking at Christ-centred materiality will be all about. We explore the New Testament and Early church rejections of Platonic Dualism and discover how they aren’t just a problem for back then, but they live on today in many polar divisions in culture and the Church.
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