Sunday 18 October at AMC was my farewell service, combined with our Harvest and Thanksgiving Service for 2015. It was also the last in our series: Rugby World Cup: David and Jesus.
We had Family Worship fun
Our Old Testament reading for Harvest and Thanksgiving is: Genesis 8:15-22 where I will focus on the LORD's song to Noah after the Flood
“As long as the earth endures,
seedtime and harvest,
cold and heat,
summer and winter,
day and night
will never cease.”
The Gospel reading for Harvest and Thanksgiving is Mark 4:1-9 where I will focus on the abundant grace of our LORD in scattering seed "wastefully" and then teach that the seed is the Word, and use this lovely story of the vicar who believes the bible has been untouched in his church for 400 years!!!
Farmer Poole scattered seed
This far in our World Cup Series: David and Jesus, we have seen that when we are in Christ, we are Bigger Than the Giants that face us; Bigger Than the Crowds around us; Bigger Than the Brokenness caused by our sin; Bigger Than Injustice; and finally this week, Bigger Than Defeat (huge thanks and kudos to Westview Methodist Church for the themes and videoclips)Our World Cup focus will be: "As passionate as you are, you give your best, and, with the LORD on your side, that's all you can do, and leave the rest up to Him." You might "win", you might be "defeated". In Christ we are Bigger Than Defeat! Our best is to bear the fruit of the Spirit in all situations (scrums between flesh and spirit) ... that's the harvest, even a hundredfold, that the LORD wants to reap from us.
We celebrated Harvest and looked at the Fruit of the Spirit
Scrum down time: the Flesh versus the Spirit
Time to say Goodbye
Our worship artist Kerryn painted this picture with coffee during the service
