Parklands Baptist Community Church

This weeks discussion questions are : 1. Who do you say Jesus is?  Or What do you think of C. S. Lewis statement in “Mere Christianity”? I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept his claim to be God.  That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on the level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell.…

Baptism (remember these are prompts for discussion, some will work, and others won’t).  Today Sarah got baptised.  Do you remember when you were baptised (if you have been). Do you remember why you got baptised ? What was it like for you ? If you hadn’t got baptised and wanted to, would your reasons be the same ?  Sarah told some of her testimony. If you found yourself standing in front of some people, and were asked why you follow Jesus or why are you a christian ? What would you say ?  Take turns.  Life Death and resurrection : Baptism links us with the life, death and resurrection of Jesus.  It says we die with Jesus and we rely…

On Tuesday night our Elders met and we agreed that we’d operate according to the Covid-Protection framework for our Sunday Services in our building. This means to take part in a service held in our church building you’ll need to be double vaccinated.  If you are not, for the next couple of weeks we’ll also run a satellite service (live streamed) in the church hall for any who are not vaccinated, or not fully vaccinated.  Note : The Covid-Protection framework asks us not to mix in the carpark. Simply put this means you have three options this Sunday. 10:30 In-person service in the Church building (Whare karakia) for the vaccinated. 10:30 Streamed satellite service in the church hall for the…

  Small group Notes  Watch the video “How to age Gracefully” What advice would you give to someone who is a couple of years younger than you ?  Share your advice with each other – have some fun with it. It was the 10 year anniversary of the christchurch earthquake last week. Share a memory or two. If you had to give advice to yourself back then, what would you say ? One more story : We read a bit of “The Rabbit Listened” where Taylor builds a block tower and it’s knocked down.  What would you say to taylor when his blocks are knocked down ?  We’re going to pay attention to Peter.  Young Peter is a professional fisherman.…

It’s been 10 years since the christchurch earthquakes plagued us. Last year was notable in that we moved out of our earthquake damaged building and this year we’re moving back in. While we did so, we found this memorial