nukelearfishing – the random and occasionally humorous musings of a Baptist Minister who is trying to be a free sample of Jesus and discover God in the ordinary.
(These musings don’t necessarily represent the views of the church I serve)
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#versesofhope
Each week on our church Facebook page I am putting an image with a Bible verse that relates to the season of Advent and Christmas. Last week, this was the one I put up. I’ll put up this week’s in a couple of days. Bless you
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Playfully creative
This is the sixth and final value that our church has recently adopted. The process by which we discerned and distilled the values was using an exercise I call ‘The Ideal Church Exhibition’. Groups, made up of diverse people from across the church, worked together to draw ‘The Ideal Church’ – where the only limit…
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People focused
The next value we have adopted is a church is that we are called to be people focused. Like Jesus: caring for and loving people of all ages, from the youngest to the oldest; through our words and actions embodying and bringing the transforming love of God to our local community in Mutley, to Plymouth,…
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Generously big-hearted
The next value in our series is another way in which we express our love for God and for people. “Like Jesus: becoming vulnerable in serving others, and generously reflecting the generosity of God – giving our time, gifts, expertise and resources to serve God and others.” In a world where success seems to be…
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Ethically motivated
This is Mutley Baptist Church’s third newly-adopted value. The text explaining what we mean by ‘Ethically motivated’ says: “Like Jesus: unashamedly and relevantly speaking God’s truth, striving for justice, caring for the environment and actively challenging the abuse of power, wealth, status and privilege.” Ethics ith not the county to the Eatht of London, where…
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Lovingly Inclusive (part 2)
We recently put up these banners outside our front door, on a main thoroughfare through Plymouth. They are 12ft tall! If you zoom in you can see our newly adopted values. This bloggage explores the second of our values which Mutley Baptist Church has adopted. The full text is: Jesus calls us to love God…
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Lovingly Inclusive
This is the second of a short series looking at the new values that we have adopted at Mutley Baptist Church. The previous two bloggages are an introduction and a look at the first one. Our second value is that we are called to be Lovingly Inclusive. The explanatory text reads: Like Jesus: celebrating and…
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God-orientated
This is the first in a series of bloggages where I will have a look at our church’s newly adopted values, which you can read here. So, my first question was whether it’s ‘oriented’ or ‘orientated’. We ‘orientate’ something, so my instinct is to add a ‘d’, but it seems that either is acceptable and…
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Fresh values
As mentioned in the last bloggage, at Mutley Baptist Church we have adopted a new set of values. We discerned them after an exercise I call ‘The Ideal Church Exhibition’. We got into groups of different ages around tables, were given a big sheet of paper and some pens, and were asked to draw the…
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Fresh starts
Yes, it’s been a long time since my last bloggage, and I am sorry. However, I am hoping to be able to do this more regularly now (stop groaning). And what better way of making a fresh start than writing about fresh starts? As you can see from the picture, at Mutley Baptist Church we…
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