So I hope you are all praying that Jesus would help the All Whites win a game at the football world cup! And for the cynical among you, have faith…just remember how Jesus found you that car park when you asked him!

Okay, so maybe that Jesus is more the plastic Jesus we are trying to dismantle than the real one. Maybe Jesus has bigger things on his mind than whether the All Whites win a game. Besides which, there will be more Christians in the USA and England praying for their teams than we have people in NZ, so we won’t have a show of convincing Jesus to back our team!!

But seriously, at School we are having a great time “dismantling the plastic Jesus”. There are still two more sessions so it’s not too late to come along.

Last week Mark Donovan led us in a good discussion about why we believe Jesus was both God and man, and why it matters for our faith that it is true. In the process we looked at some of our faulty understandings about this that distort our true understanding of Jesus. You can find the notes and get involved in the discussion here.

This week we are going to look at Jesus’ time on earth. Can Jesus’ story simply be summed up by Christmas and Easter? Is there something more? What was his life really about? On the way, maybe we will dismantle a few more of our plastic ideas about Jesus.

So come and join us this Thursday, 7pm in the Edge Kingsland café for good times, good chats, good baking, and a good chance to dismantle the plastic Jesus together…we would love to see you there.

Andy D.

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