Worship Mission Discipleship 7th June 2020

The written Resources mesh with the weekly video and 'should' be downloadable from here or https://tinyurl.com/ybewxach (email me at robhanks@bigpond.net.au if not)

To Begin, it might be worth doing this reading looking out at the night sky
If so you could spend a simple time reflecting, asking to hear God in the awe and beauty
OR go for a daytime walk us tide and just take in the sky at that time…
Do you have a favourite piece of music you could listen to?

Read Psalm 8 (NLT) For the choir director: A psalm of David,
to be accompanied by a stringed instrument
1 O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!
    Your glory is higher than the heavens.
2 You have taught children and infants to tell of your strength,
    silencing your enemies and all who oppose you.
3 When I look at the night sky and see the work of your fingers—
    the moon and the stars you set in place—
4 what are mere mortals that you should think about them,
    human beings that you should care for them?[c]
5 Yet you made them only a little lower than God[d]
    and crowned them[e] with glory and honor.
6 You gave them charge of everything you made,
    putting all things under their authority—
7 the flocks and the herds and all the wild animals,
8 the birds in the sky, the fish in the sea, and everything that swims the ocean currents.
9 O Lord, our Lord, your majestic name fills the earth!

Video for Reflection “Time-lapse NASA Earth Acoustic”

Video Song “Come One Come All” Malcolm Gordon

Video Bible Reading Matthew 28:16-20 Don Cameron

Video Song “Solid Rock” Darlow feat. Shane Howard
Please note the information about Reconciliation Week 2020
“In This Together” celebrating 20 years since the Harbour Bridge Walk
But also asking us whether we have made enough progress in reconciliation,
which requires truth telling and justice

Excerpt from Sarah Dylan Breuer (here and towards the end of the day)
This Sunday is Trinity Sunday, a time when we celebrate especially the communion that is God's very Self, and remember the Great Commission that the risen Jesus gave us to baptize people from all nations. But the commission Christ gave us doesn't stop there, and too often what follows is the Great Omission in the life of the church. We're called not just to baptize. We're not called to make churchgoers, people who include religion as one among many respectable civic activities. We're called to make disciples, people who really follow Jesus as Lord.

Video Clip How Do We Hear God

Reflection Questions
‘The good news’ or gospel, that the Kingdom of God exists and God who is love, waits to break into our lives and bring meaning and value, always has an address (a context into which it is shared). The world has changed so rapidly in the last 70+ years…
What would be ‘good news’ for people in the world today, or at least in our community?
What is a human hurt or hope you believe is present in our community, waiting to be met?
When you have you most felt a sense of God speaking into your life or circumstances, with a life giving response?

Video Song “Be Thou My Vision” Audrey Assad

“Your holy war, 
your northern star
Your sermon on the mount from the boot of your car ... 

So love is hard 
And love is tough 

But love is not 
What you're thinking of”

U2, “Please,” Pop

Finally, God’s kingdom coming,
making all as it was when the world was born:
lands as borderless as the skies.
Humanity in the image of God,
invited into communion with the God
whose very Being is Triune communion.
The grace of the Lord, Jesus the Christ.
The love of God.
The communion of the Holy Spirit.
With all of us, always.
So please, get up off your knees.
The risen Christ invites us to into the world bearing this Good News!
Thanks be to God.“
13 The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Spirit be with all of you”
Amen

Is the western Christian church’s party over?  What different shape might we take?