Getting ready to have conversations about Jesus, with Helen Bell
Helen Bell shares how she’s working on having more conversations about Jesus, and how we might be more pro-active and better prepared for these moments.
Helen Bell shares how she’s working on having more conversations about Jesus, and how we might be more pro-active and better prepared for these moments.
The situation at Mars Hill took so long to come to a head because of the remarkable giftedness of Mark Driscoll (and others) in so many areas. His ‘eccentricities’ were excused not just because his church grew, but because he himself did so many things in ways which were so refreshing. The trouble was that he was also acting in ways which damaged many others.
In Acts 6, the application of the gospel truth that there is no Gentile or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, male or female is not to flatten out those distinctions, but to recognise them, accept them, and work with them.
This article offers a contribution towards deliberations on this important question by providing some reasons why some Christians may vote ‘No’, while sharing the widespread goal of seeing entrenched disadvantage addressed for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. My concern is that the proposal embeds the Voice into the Constitution, giving special, permanent access and influence to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, arguably over matters not directly and distinctively related to them.
The purpose of this reflection is not to adjudicate on the rightness of the actions of the Australian cricket team, nor to comment on the reaction by English media, but to acknowledge that everyone connected with the game accepts that a thing called the spirit of cricket actually exists. The spirit of cricket is a real, yet intangible concept.