God’s New Society

Ask anyone who has lived in Crookes in the 1940’s & 50’s and they will tell you that we were a true community back then! People left their doors open, looked out for their neighbours, helped each other through hard times. Every-one knew everybody up and down the street – knew everybody’s business too! Maybe a little too close at times… But there was very little local crime – or loneliness.

Sadly the idea of a close-knit local community is pretty well a thing of the past in Sheffield, and indeed most cities in our Hi-Tech 21st Century. It’s a lot easier to get on with people over the Internet than over the garden fence.

We are a materially-rich but community -poor society now, and a lot less happy with it, by most sociological indicators.

Ephesians gives us God’s blue-print for a new society, a new community, built on the foundations of God’s love. A community where all are included, everyone has a part to play, where all are loved and cared for, where justice and peace reign, where God’s will is done, where his Kingdom has come.

This letter, above all, helps us to understand how God wants to transform our broken society, indeed our broken church, to heal and restore us to become one family, united in Christ.

This Summer, as we learn from Ephesians how to become God’s New Society, we will not only experience great blessing and joy, but we will be a Sign of God’s Kingdom, helping others to find Christ as well.

Teaching information

(Morning Services only)

Date

Theme

R1

R2

18th

Apr

Understanding how

Blessed we are in Christ

Eph 1

1-8a

Lk 19

1-10

25th

Apr

Understanding God’s

MASTER PLAN FOR US

Eph 1

8b-14

Jn 13

31-35

2nd

May

Understand – through prayer -

A life-changing Hope

Eph

1.15-23

Jn 14

6-14

9th

May

 

Ephesians

2.1-10

16th May

Are You An

ANOREXIC CHRISTIAN?

Rom 12.1-3

Mt 7

24-29

23rd May

Understanding that

Everyone is included

Eph

2.11-22

Lk 10

25-37

30th

May

Understanding where

our roots need to be

Eph

3.14-21

Lk 10

38-42

6th

Jun

Understanding what

Unity really means

Eph

4.1-16

Jn 17

 

13th

Jun

MORE MONEY

= MORE LIFE?

Luke 12.13-21

20th

Jun

Understanding about the

Old self & New self

Eph

4.17-32

Jn 3

1-8

27th

Jun

Understanding about

Living in the Light

Eph

5.1-20

Mt 5

17-24

4th

Jul

Understanding the

Secrets of Married Life

Eph

5.21-33

Mk 10

35-45

11th

Jul

Happy Families?

Ephesians

6.1-4

18th

Jul

Bishop Cyril ordains
Sarah to become a Priest

TBA

TBA

25th

Jul

Understanding about Spiritual Warfare

Eph

6.10-20

Mk 3

20-27