Keep Your Love On!

Our mission is to be a church that is loved into life and is living in love. Loved into life by the unconditional, extravagant, relentless love of God. And then living in the same kind of love with which our Father God has loved us. That way, together we show the world what God is like. Together, we make the love of God real to people around us in the real world. Together, we get to be a church that looks like Jesus.

As is hopefully clear by now, the life which we are loved into is represented pictorially in Scripture as a river (Ezekiel 47:1-12) and the community of love that this river of life produces is represented as the kingdom tree (Matthew 13:31-32). This tree, the community of love, includes all the people we have the honour of reaching out to, serving, welcoming and including as a church, in different places and spaces. It is not an inward looking community. And yet the quality of our relationships within the church family is vital to the health and strength of this tree. Our love for one another is what enables the people we reach out to, to understand what it means to follow Jesus. (John 13:35).

As we start this New Year, we therefore want to encourage everyone in the church family to recommit to building quality relationships. Where there are broken relationships, commit to reconciliation. Where there are weak relationships, commit to strengthening them. Where there are struggling relationships, commit to working at ‘keeping your love on’, no matter what. To that end I am recommending a book that is one of the best I have read on building quality relationships – ‘Keep Your Love On!’, by Danny Silk. Warning: it is

very challenging and his exceptional insights and guidance need to be applied and not just read! But if we allow it to challenge us and commit to following the biblical and practical principles he teaches, it will help us all. Here’s a quote as a taster:

“…quality love relationships do not happen by accident. Real love is built the old fashioned way – through hard work.”

So here’s to a good year of the most important kind of work we can give ourselves to – the work of building quality relationships and loving each other well.

Reflection

WHAT’S ON THIS MONTH?

WEDNESDAY 23RD JANUARY

WEDNESDAY 30TH JANUARY

Church Family MeetingMaking Connections

WEDNESDAY 9TH JANUARY

A monthly corporate time of worship and prayer. We encourage all who are able to come together to pray. 8pm, Jubilee Centre

The topic of this TTE is to be announced 7:30pm, Jubilee Centre

WEEK COMMENCING 31ST DECEMBER

WEEK COMMENCING 14TH JANUARY

Training, Teaching, Equipping

SUNDAY 6TH JANUARY

Sunday Morning prayer meetings will resume from Sunday 6th January 2019 at the new time of 10am in our new ‘Prayer Space’ in the main hall. 10am, Jubilee Centre

20TH JANUARY – 9TH FEBRUARY

We are setting aside 21 days (from 20th January to the 9th February) for prayer and fasting in 2019.

We will be looking to God to take us higher, to shift atmospheres and to renew our strength as we continue our journey together in 2019.

There will be more information and practical advice to follow on this. Look out for further details.

On Eagles’Wings

21 Days of Prayer and Fasting

Following on from our meeting and discussions last year, Community Church Huddersfield became part of the Pioneer Network from 1 January 2019.

If you want to go to learn more about Pioneer visit their website at pioneer.org.uk Richard Anniss, who, with his wife Judith, is part of the Pioneer Core Team, will continue to be our main apostolic oversight.

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worldstories

We will be continuing to give people opportunity each month on a Sunday morning to share something about how they get to express the life and love of God in their everyday world.

This month it will be the magnificent James Archer!

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Making Connections

There will be a Church Family Meeting on Wednesday 30th January. Please keep that date free and do your best to be with us.

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If you would like to contribute to the February issue, please let us know by Friday 18th January

In October 2019 talkthru will have been running for 20 years.A number of fundraising events will be planned. Details to follow.

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Supporting those affected by baby loss and pregnancy related issues

Our primary vision is to explain and show the Gospel to people who speak English asa second or other language. Our heart is that people from different nationswould come to know God's love and His saving power in Jesus.

Classes are held every Tuesday afternoon at Oasis Youth andCommunity Centre in Huddersfield town centre.

Please pray for those attending the Bible and English classesto come to know Jesus and know him better. Most of ourcurrent students are Iranians and some have been referredto OpenWord by the Welcome Network in Derby. We wouldalso really value your prayers for financial provision this yearas we are in need. Thank-you.

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