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WELCOME to our Sunday celebration!
If it is your first time with us we would like to especially welcome you.
We hope that you will enjoy meeting with God and His people today!
Crèche, kids and youth work provisions are held in the rooms on the
2nd floor. All our fantastic children’s workers hold CRB checks.
Free tea and coffee is in the first floor foyer after the meeting where
we would love to get to know you and to help you make new friends.
The Welcome Desk is available for all information about the life of the
church including the all of the events listed in this Update.
t:07949912500 w:www.newlifesalford.org e:[email protected] p:PO Box 480, Salford M5 3UY
Making Jesus FamousMaking Jesus FamousMaking Jesus Famous
Tuesday 9.30-11am: ‘Yummy Mummies’ at various homes
Thursday 7.30pm: Worship Group Practice at King’s House
The Lighthouse
12 Centenary Park, Coronet Way, Eccles M50 1RE To book log on to:
http://www.salfordstories.com/tickets/
Ladies’ eveningLadies’ eveningLadies’ eveningLadies’ evening Friday 25th February, 7.30pm
Venue to be confirmed
What’s Coming Up:
Monday: 7.00pm Led by Russ and Irene Bennett in Ordsall
Tuesday:
7.00pm Led by Kevin and Jo Hardwidge in Swinton
7.30pm Led by Jennie and Roland in Salford Quays
Wednesday:
7.30pm Led by David and Hannah Knight in Langworthy
8th – 10th April 2011
8th – 10th April 2011
Book in at the
Welcome Desk today!
New Life Church are going on a fantastic weekend away to Cefn Lea
conference centre. We will spend quality time as a family and know
more of God’s presence as we eat, relax and worship together.
Please visit www.bridgewater-hall.co.uk for booking information
MEN’S BREAKFAST
Saturday 26th February, 9.30am - 11.30am Food, fun & fellowship.
Held at Pete Johnson’s home in Patricroft.
Last Sunday, Gavin shared on the im-
portance of friendship in our church.
The two occasions that Jesus mentions
the word ‘church’, in Matthew 16 and
18, it is for the function of binding
what has already been bound in
heaven, and of loosing on earth what
is already loosed in heaven.
What struck me when reading those
two passages was the link between our
REVELATION of the Christ (Matthew
16 :13-20) and our RELATIONSHIPS in
Christ (Matthew 18:15-20). While it is
of absolute importance that we must
have and continue to have a super-
natural revelation of who Jesus is as
we grow into His likeness, that process
cannot happen in isolation; we are
saved into the church family where
conflict and misunderstanding must be
properly dealt with in a spirit of for-
giveness. God has forgiven us, so who
are we NOT to forgive others?
Gavin pointed out that ‘before we can
become an army, we must be a family’.
Matthew 18 bears this out; the binding
and loosing occurs once a relationship
breakdown has been dealt with. The
flow of unity that Jesus wants for us is
unlimited power in prayer, based on
agreement aligned with God’s purpose
and flow of anointing (in ‘my’ name).
Russ Bennett
Jesus calls us friends, not merely ser-
vants, because servants are task-
oriented and do not have the bigger
picture available to them (John 15:15).
All that the Father has, Jesus has made
known to us. Friends have the benefits
of insight into the person they are
serving. When we are friends with
God, we serve Him out of gratitude.
The fruit of transformation in our lives
comes from the fellowship of the Holy
Spirit and friendship with others. The
film ‘The King’s Speech’ is as a great
example of this, of the power of
friendship and encouragement. It’s
how a cold, business relationship can
be transformed into covenant friend-
ship that gets much better results.
In the film, the speech therapist insists
that the stammering king would only
be rid of his impediment if there was
total equality between them. It was
only as the king relaxed and began to
form a genuine connection with the
person helping him that change hap-
pened. Friendship is based on equality.
This is the gospel; that in love, Jesus
chose to appear in human form as our
‘equal’, in order that through His death
multitudes of people at enmity with
Him could become friends of God.
Friendship = Fruitfulness
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