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Randomised Facebook

yes there's an app on Facebook that apparently created random posts based on your actual posts. Our girls showed me. And ok, I had fun for a little while...

 

 

 

 

 

Teaching Weekend at Rosefield

This past weekend our congregation hosted a biblical "Teaching Weekend" on the Gospel of Matthew. Our guest teacher was Rev. Dr. Sean Winter from the UCA Theological College in Melbourne. A year ago the congregation completed a visioning exercise about our future directions. The presbytery then conducted a periodic consultation about our "life and witness" as a church, and they suggested that we needed a clearer emphasis on adult education. We took this on board as one of our 2020 goals.

I proposed the Teaching Weekend, which I hope will become an annual event. One of our local Mission Networks has run an annual event with a focus on the Lectionary Gospel for the year, but in 2014 they had planned something different. So it made sense to focus on Matthew. We gained the support of the SA Presbytery Lay Preachers' Committe and the Urban Mission Network (which we have just joined). 

Part of the significance of the theme, developed superbly by Sean Winter, was that Matthew's Gospel is a teaching gospel for the church. It is about learning from Jesus about being disciples whose life together both welcomes and participates in the coming reign of God. So the actual content of the sessions reflected what we are seeking to become, a church whose common life connects the life and teachings of Jesus with life today.

"If Your Brother Sins Against You" - A Drama

1: If your brother sins against you...
2: Can’t say I know that one?
1: What?
2: “Against You”. Can you hum a few bars?
1: What are you talking about?
2: You said he sings “Against You”.
1: I said sins.
2: Huh?

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Here's a drama that I wrote some years ago based on Matthew 5: 21-24, 38-48.

Download Matthew_5-21-24_38-48 (55kb PDF)

Doubting Thomas

Here's a new script based on Thomas' encounter with the risen Jesus.

It's in the style of a famous UK Christian drama group...

1: This is a story!
2: A story?
1: Positively!
2: Legendary?
1: Repeatedly!
2: Mystery?
1: Undeniably

and so on....

Download Doubting Thomas

When we were at North Ringwood UC in Melbourne I started a drama group. Once a month the minister would give me his text for the following Sunday on a Monday (no Lectionary). I'd write a script on Monday afternoon, we'd rehearse it Monday evening and then present it the following Sunday. We had a lot of fun. Thanks to the folks who were part of that. You know who you are.