Church in Seven
Words
Rethinking our mission, witness and identity
Simon Nash
Business Connect
28 November 2012
Miguel Servetus (1511 – 1553)
Miguel Servetus - 27 October 1553
Cayetano Ripoll
(1778 – 1826)
Cayetano Ripoll 26 July 1826
John Calvin (1509 – 1564)
Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus
(272 – 337)
Pope Celestine I
(c390 – 432)
+Honoratus of Arles
(350 – 429)
Seven words?
God’s People Righteously Implementing God’s Holy Law
The Kingdom of God’s expression on Earth
Might and Right in Lord Jesus’ Name
Thou shalt not sin, it’s the law
Dirk Willems (c 1540 – 1569)
Seven words?
Jesus’ Radical Apocalyptic Charismatic
Eucharistic Peacemaking Community…
Question for discussion
Is the truth worth killing for?
What is the Christian approach to the
principalities and powers?
WWJD?

Church in seven words

Editor's Notes

  • #2 I have 7 minutes to cover one verse, Matthew 5:41I’m going to start with some history, much of which will be familiar to people who read the New Testament. I’m then going to look in detail at our verse.Finally we will think about what that verse, and others like it means for us in twenty-first century Jersey.The biggest fact of life for first century Jews was the Roman Occupation of Palestine, just as the biggest historical event was the Roman-Jewish War of 66-73 AD, in which over 1 million people were killed, another 100,000 enslaved, and the Second Temple, along with the whole of Jerusalem was destroyed. Jesus’ ministry took place between the Roman invasion of 63 BC and the war of 66 AD, in the reigns of Augustus (King of kings, lord of lords, bringer of peace, son of God) and Tiberius.