Welcome to the Parish of Modbury and Golden Grove

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Peter is writing to groups of Jewish background believers who had scattered out from Rome because of persecution. But suspicions and false accusations followed them. That’s because honouring an array of local gods, as was customary, wasn’t an option for them. Jesus’s claim was uncompromising; there was only ever one way, one truth and one life. And that claim was even less popular then than it is now. -Many among that first generation of believerspaid with their lives.  Rather than follow the time-honoured blueprint of threatening your torturers with direpunishments coming to them in the  hereafter, Peter suggests that the believers try a noticeably different approach, eliminating their opponents by winning them over. He reminds them about Jesus on the cross, who had prayed forgiveness on everyone. Stephen had done the same, calling out with his last strength, ‘Lord, do not hold this sin against them.’ His eyes were focussed on the vision of God’s glory, not at the hostile faces surrounding him.

Like the soldiers and other witnesses at the cross, or Stephen outside Jerusalem that day, or Peter at the Mount of Transfiguration, just occasionally we get a sample preview of God’s glory, a tiny vision of what is to come like a light shining into the darkness. May we grow in grace as we take our place in God’s design, seeing past this world’s troubles into the eternal kingdom.

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Usual weekly services and activities:

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Sunday:        Holy Communion 8.00 am

                       Holy Communion 10am

Monday:       Bible Study 10.00 am 

Tuesday:       Holy Communion 8.30 am

                        Community Garden 9.30 am

                        Christian meditation 9;30-10am alternate Tuesday from

                        21 Jan 2025

Wednesday: Bible Study 10.00 am

                        Fortnightly Foodbank   10.00 am

Thursday:      Holy Communion 10.00 am

Friday:            Community Garden 9.30 am

                        

 

1st Tuesday of the month Community Garden BBQ 11.30 am

1st and 3rd Sunday of the month Bari Service 11.30 am

2nd Thursday of the month Men's Group 7.30 pm

1st Friday of the month "Come as You Are" - Women's Fellowship 10-12 ​

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