Youth team planning for Atwell Estate, GodLovesPeckham

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Mural planning

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Safeguarding briefing God Loves Peckham

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Team briefing God Loves Peckham. Friday evening.

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Pentecost Prayer

He have just agreed the words for the prayer we will be praying on Pentecost when the BBC come to All Saints (23rd May)

Pentecost Prayer

Let everyone know this for certain:

Jesus, who was crucified is both Rescuer and King

So I turn from my sins and I turn to God,
I look to Jesus

for forgiveness;
When I believe in Him

then I will receive
the fire of love, the Spirit so Holy.
I hear today, this promise if for me
and for all our children

and for every nation.
Oh save us and our generation.

Father God we love you today, guide us we pray.

Son of God we come to you today, inspire us we pray;
Spirit of God we receive you today, fill us we pray!

Amen.

I am off to Church in a moment for our final planning meeting before God Loves Peckham 2010 kicks off!

Law Lords and misunderstanding of Christianity

I have a sense of profound unease about a statement today from the Law Lords in the ruling ina recent case involving Christian freedoms in the UK.

Lord Justice wrote:

But the conferment of any legal protection or preference upon a particular substantive moral position on the ground only that it is espoused by the adherents of a particular faith, however long its tradition, however rich its culture, is deeply unprincipled. It imposes compulsory law, not to advance the general good on objective grounds, but to give effect to the force of subjective opinion.

This must be so, since in the eye of everyone save the believer religious faith is necessarily subjective, being incommunicable by any kind of proof or evidence. It may of course be true; but the ascertainment of such a truth lies beyond the means by which laws are made in a reasonable society. Therefore it lies only in the heart of the believer, who is alone bound by it. No one else can be so bound, unless by his own free choice he accepts its claims.

see

http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2010/04/we-have-never-said-antigay-christians-are-bigots.html

While I deeply sympathise with the individuals involved in the case, what bothers me is that one of the highest authorities in the Land could have such an extraordinary philosophical stance and utter misunderstanding of Christianity. The objective/subjective divide which puts faith in subjective and reason in the objective camp is breathtakingly ignorant it seems to me - I have a sense of despair that the view is still out there, and it remind me how important apologetics really is. As Christians we have a 'reason for the hope that we have' not nutty emotional response to untestable and otherwise ludicrous ideas. I think it is time to refute the idea that our faith is subjective alone - if it were then the Justice is right - to impose these ideas on others would be wrong - but if his fundamental premise is in error, then the judgement is itself based on subjective bias...

24 7 prayer

The 24 7 prayer room - the boiler room is ready to go- completed this morning, just in time for a week of prayer which begins this Sunday. We are praying for Peckham, and the fullness of the Holy Spirit as we prepare for Pentecost.
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