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2024 Bible Reading Plan | Bible Verses About Fear + Autumn Playlist & Bucket List September 29, 2024

January is an excellent time to go away as a Church. Not much is going on, there’s not much to do, and the weather’s horrible, which means a lot of sitting inside.

And this does something to starve the soul, making it lean and hungry and vulnerable.

Walking through the Surrey countryside was gentle and beautiful. I loved playing board games with new friends, and laughing with them as we got things wrong together. Those of us who spent time outside early in the morning will have been entranced by the quiet dawn frost. And more than a few enjoyed risking their ankles in a definitely non-regulation game of football.

But these warm and welcome loves are not the reasons for going away as Church. Instead, they are the preconditions to an honest worship in which our souls are nourished.

Felix Aremo, our guest speaker and part of the London City Mission team, spent the weekend covering the three dimensions of Church life :

• Upward – us in right reverence of God
• Outward – us as priests to our city and neighbours
• Inward – us seeking discomforting unity through diversity