From Mark
Hi Friends
What do you believe?
If one were to ask you - What do you believe? - what would you say?
During this autumn I’m going to be asking that question and looking at the Apostles’ Creed as my guide.
It's a succinct yet profound statement summarising the core beliefs of the Christian faith and we can only benefit in considering its profound truths.
As we consider its profound statements, with passages from the Bible confirming its truth, ask yourself the question - What do you believe?
A Comment on Political Violence
Political violence is not a new thing, but always an unwelcome thing.
Before this week I’d never heard of Charlie Kirk, a relatively young man shot dead this week whilst addressing a university campus in Utah (USA).
Everything I know about him comes from the news media, mainstream and social, so I can’t really say I know much about him at all. However, his murder has sparked many a political and religious comment in the past few days. Whether it’s helpful to extrapolate from that one incident the following comments I’ll leave you to decide, but it seems to me that parts of our culture in the West are suffering from antagonistic chaos.
We need political leaders who refuse to stoke violence against political adversaries, refuse to use existing episodes of violence to inflame more violence for political gain, refuse to dehumanise amidst disagreement and instead seek the way of Jesus.
Pray for our political leaders and show the humanising affect of love and peace in all your encounters with people - whether you agree with them or not.