Tomorrow we'll continue our series of meetings of Theology for Breakfast!
Following Luther's Table Talks example, we'll meet from 9am to 11am at Central Café in Mezzolara
where, while enjoying a breakfast with capuccino & croissants,
we'll engage with God's Word discovering the beauty of theology in our
everyday life!
Together we'll interact with the module: Union with Christ, concluding Unit 6. Union With Christ And One Another.
Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.
We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.
During the service we'll have a children's club where kids will engage with the same Bible passage.
We will celebrate the Lord's Supper, sharing bread and wine as a church family, proclaiming the death and resurrection of the Lord, until he comes!
Italian history is full of harvest festivals, which have become the typical fairs of today' rural Italy, and which still provide a moment of community for families and friends at the end of summer. It is therefore common to see families with young kids enjoying good food and good music together, as well as parents and teenage children cooking and serving together at tables.
This reminds us of God's missional generosity, in the sowing and harvesting of both the produce of the earth and the Gospel of grace: "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it." Isaiah 55:10-11
So, this weekend, as a church family, we'll be taking part in AgriBu 2025 in various ways, organising a special edition for the restart of our after-school club, MySpace, and serving at the various related events.
This is one of the many ways we want to serve and celebrate with our community, make new friends and strengthen existing ones, and live out and share the joy of the Gospel
Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.
We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.
Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.
Italian history is full of harvest festivals, which have become the typical fairs of today' rural Italy, and which still provide a moment of community for families and friends at the end of summer. It is therefore common to see families with young kids enjoying good food and good music together, as well as parents and teenage children cooking and serving together at tables.
This reminds us of God's missional generosity, in the sowing and harvesting of both the produce of the earth and the Gospel of grace: "For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return there but water the earth, making it bring forth and sprout, giving seed to the sower and bread to the eater, so shall my word be that goes out from my mouth; it shall not return to me empty, but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it." Isaiah 55:10-11
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Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.
We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.
We'll have the joy to celebrate the Baptism of Fabio.
Tomorrow evening, as church family, we'll have a Prayer Walk around Budrio.
We'll
meet at at the social center Magnolia,
where we'll start a Prayer Walk through the streets of Budrio!
As a church family, we'll stop at key points in our town to intercede and pray for the Lord's work in our community!
Specifically, we'll pray for Fabio's Baptism next Sunday and for our children and young people as they return to school.
"But seek the welfare of the city ...and pray to the LORD on its behalf, for in its welfare you will find your welfare." Jeremiah 29:7
Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.
We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.
As a church family, we will have two special Vision and Mission Sundays where we'll study the Book of Acts interacting with the book: "Mission: Your place in God's plan for the nations" by Alan Purser, published by The Good Book Company.
Tomorrow we'll engage with Acts 10:1-11:18 - The Great Commission according to Peter!
Why study mission? Mission
is the heartbeat of the Bible. From the time of Adam and Eve’s
rebellion until the promised new heaven and new earth, God is on a
mission: to call rebellious people into a reconciled relationship with
him. God’s plan to bring salvation to the ends of the earth was spelled
out by his prophets in the Old Testament and proclaimed by his apostles
in the New Testament. At the centre of this mission plan is God’s
anointed Saviour King, the Lord Jesus Christ: it is Jesus who makes
atonement for sin and who brings in the kingdom of God.
Our desire is
that as church family we’ll be spurred on to engage in mission in our
comunity; and we’ll be better equipped to support and pray for the work
of mission in other cities and countries, as well as get a fresh grasp
of God’s mission, and a renewed engagement in his plan for the nations.
“One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple. For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock.”
Psalm 27:4-5
Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.
We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.
As a church family, we will have two special Vision and Mission Sundays where we'll study the Book of Acts interacting with the book: "Mission: Your place in God's plan for the nations" by Alan Purser, published by The Good Book Company.
Tomorrow we'll engage with Acts 1:1-11 - The unfinished task!
Why study mission? Mission is the heartbeat of the Bible. From the time of Adam and Eve’s rebellion until the promised new heaven and new earth, God is on a mission: to call rebellious people into a reconciled relationship with him. God’s plan to bring salvation to the ends of the earth was spelled out by his prophets in the Old Testament and proclaimed by his apostles in the New Testament. At the centre of this mission plan is God’s anointed Saviour King, the Lord Jesus Christ: it is Jesus who makes atonement for sin and who brings in the kingdom of God.
Our desire is that as church family we’ll be spurred on to engage in mission in our comunity; and we’ll be better equipped to support and pray for the work of mission in other cities and countries, as well as get a fresh grasp of God’s mission, and a renewed engagement in his plan for the nations.
Together, we will play on the multiple-choice quiz platform, enjoying getting to know each other better as a church family, and reviewing what we have learned from Paul's Letter to the Galatians!
Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.
We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.
Every Sunday in July and August, we interacted with the Good Book Company book Galatians: Gospel Matters, by Tim Keller. Tomorrow we'll be concluding this series with a special service. Several of our church family will be sharing some of the lessons they've learned this summer from Paul's Letter to the Galatians!
Which gospel are you relying on?
In
Galatia in AD 50, the church faced a choice between two “gospels” - two
ways of living, of thinking, of viewing how to be right with God. On
the one side were the teachers who told these young Christians that
their
performance mattered. Of course they needed to trust Christ and his
death; and then, if they wanted truly to be acceptable to God, they
needed to get circumcised and get on with keeping God’s laws. Their
efforts were what counted. On the other side was Paul, the
church-planting missionary who had founded the Galatian church a few
years before. He said they were “foolish” and “bewitched” (3:1). He
claimed the gospel they were turning to was actually “no gospel at all”
(1:7). And he told them that the only performance that mattered was
Christ’s: his life, death, and resurrection. Faith in him, Paul argued,
was all that anyone needed to be truly acceptable to God. Their efforts
counted for nothing - and relying on them would bring them under God’s
“curse” (3:10). Which “gospel” they followed mattered. The choice
between the gospel of Christ-alone and the false gospel of Christ-plus
is still one which Christians face today. Christ-plus may not look the
same in our cultures as it did in Galatia. But it’s still an attractive
message, a flattering view, and a subtle reversal of the true gospel…
and so it’s still deadly. As Paul wrote to the Galatian church, he knew
that to lose your grip on the true gospel is to desert and lose Christ
himself, and to lose the salvation and blessing and freedom he gives.
The gospel matters. Paul knew that everything was at stake. It still is.
In these seven meetings on the book of Galatians, Paul will present us
with a gospel that is wonderful, liberating, and true. He’ll show us
that our problems in the Christian life come when we lose or forget or
fail to live by this gospel. And he will ask us repeatedly: which gospel
are you relying on?
We'll also have some time to intercede for one another and to thank God for how he's building our church family, for opening doors in the community, and for his work worldwide!
Tomorrow we'll have our morning service to worship God together and to proclaim His Word in Budrio.
We are glad for the Lord's provision of the meeting room at the social center Magnolia, a well known cultural meeting point right at the centre of Budrio.
Every Sunday in July and August, we'll interact with the Good Book Company book Galatians: Gospel Matters, by Tim Keller.
Tomorrow we'll engage with "The Gospel is enough" (Galatians 5:26 – 6:18)
Which gospel are you relying on?
In
Galatia in AD 50, the church faced a choice between two “gospels” - two
ways of living, of thinking, of viewing how to be right with God. On
the one side were the teachers who told these young Christians that
their
performance mattered. Of course they needed to trust Christ and his
death; and then, if they wanted truly to be acceptable to God, they
needed to get circumcised and get on with keeping God’s laws. Their
efforts were what counted. On the other side was Paul, the
church-planting missionary who had founded the Galatian church a few
years before. He said they were “foolish” and “bewitched” (3:1). He
claimed the gospel they were turning to was actually “no gospel at all”
(1:7). And he told them that the only performance that mattered was
Christ’s: his life, death, and resurrection. Faith in him, Paul argued,
was all that anyone needed to be truly acceptable to God. Their efforts
counted for nothing - and relying on them would bring them under God’s
“curse” (3:10). Which “gospel” they followed mattered. The choice
between the gospel of Christ-alone and the false gospel of Christ-plus
is still one which Christians face today. Christ-plus may not look the
same in our cultures as it did in Galatia. But it’s still an attractive
message, a flattering view, and a subtle reversal of the true gospel…
and so it’s still deadly. As Paul wrote to the Galatian church, he knew
that to lose your grip on the true gospel is to desert and lose Christ
himself, and to lose the salvation and blessing and freedom he gives.
The gospel matters. Paul knew that everything was at stake. It still is.
In these seven meetings on the book of Galatians, Paul will present us
with a gospel that is wonderful, liberating, and true. He’ll show us
that our problems in the Christian life come when we lose or forget or
fail to live by this gospel. And he will ask us repeatedly: which gospel
are you relying on?
