The Message and Motivation of the Church

Title: The Message and Motivation of the Church
Location: John Owen Barn 10:00am
                      Eight Ash Green (11:30)
Preacher: Rev’d Francis Blight
Teaching Passage: 2 Corinthians 5:10-21

You are invited to stay for a cup of tea or coffee after either service.

The All Saints Club autumn term begins this Sunday with the following groups:

Matthew Group (11 – 16 years)
Luke Group (4 – 11 years)
Parent Led Creche (0-3 years). 

Children and young people begin with their parents/carers In the main service.

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2 Corinthians 5:10-21
5:10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive what is due him for the things done while in the body, whether good or bad.

5:11 Since, then, we know what it is to fear the Lord, we try to persuade men. What we are is plain to God, and I hope it is also plain to your conscience.
5:12 We are not trying to commend ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to take pride in us, so that you can answer those who take pride in what is seen rather than in what is in the heart.
5:13 If we are out of our mind, it is for the sake of God; if we are in our right mind, it is for you.
5:14 For Christ's love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
5:15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

5:16 So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
5:18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
5:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men's sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
5:20 We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God.

5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.