All posts by Mark Edwards
Monkey off the back
Good win on Sunday….
Great, really really good to see Hasleby back to his best
Shaun Mc Manus best on ground in my view.
Luke Webster should never get dropped
Pav and Taz working really well together
We Remember
It was a really good service this morning, well led.
Q interviewed two senior ladies as we remembered Anzac Day. These two had remarkable stories.
M was sent off to Canada as a 12 year old from the Uk in 1940. She remembered bomb shelters and being scared when the siren sounded. She married H who was a Lancaster Bomber pilot. He has gone to be with the Lord, but she told how he used to have to fly in the dark night over the English Channel and bomb U-Boats.
B was married for only a short time, had a young baby and her husband was sent off to New Guinea and other placed for 5 years! She had to go to the farm to help her father out.
Both of these ladies have been at Bedford for over 3o years and are very supportive of the ministry. What an example they are.
This week I will put the ten minute interview online, and you can listen to it.
We also spent some time in prayer for the families of those lost in that terrible shooting in the US.
Being slack and being missional
I had a really interesting conversation with a good mate over a sloppy greasy hamburger at Hungry Jacks. (Actually I had the hamburger, he had a relatively healthy chicken salad roll or something)
We were talking about the EC and he made this comment, “you know there are slack inward looking people and leaders in all forms of church, whether they are EC, or other forms”
His point was we should not criticise the movents or forms of church, so much as challenge everyone to mission, no matter how they do it.
I thought that was a great point.
However all I would say is this, if you are leaving the less radical forms of church in order to be missional, because you have had enough of churches who just grow through transfer growth, then make sure you are being missional, and measure that in some way, so you know you are not just talking about it.
The same could be said to me and others in my position. If you are going to try and facilitate a church being transformed and ‘renovated’, then make sure mission stays your focus, and when you actually start to have an attractive church, don’t be happy with just attracting other Christians.
Sunday 29th April Eagles D Registration day
Dockerland.com are pushing for April 29th to be Eagles deregistration day. The Management of the WC have been asked to come to AFL headquaters on that date to explain the shocking culture at the reigning premiers. Many of us believe the time has come, the call to action is here…..de register them!!! All their assests can be redistributed, and Freo can have Chris Judd.
You can read about their commmunity minded efforts here
Morley Market Sewing Centre
Grumpiness thrown in free!
If you own a business maybe you could take some advice from a consumer….
If you sell a $2.99 cotton reel, why not smile and help a husband who has no idea about such things? The same customer might be in the market for an overloker in a few months. But rest assured if you are really grumpy and unhelpful over the small item, he probably wont ask you for the large one.
What do you say?
I am leading a graveside ceremony today for some parents who lost twins at 20 weeks. They have been trying for over 5 years. Both are now approaching the old side of 35.
What do you say in such circumstances? Why is life so hard sometimes, and why is it so hard for really good people, who would make great great loving parents? Then others find it really easy to have kids, and maybe, are not such great parents.
Life is not fair sometimes, and it always leads to us questioning God at some point. Why God?