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Pastor's Letter

It's very strange! Whenever I tell people I'm a Christian, they have a sort of reaction. One lady recently said, 'You're all the same, do gooders, ramming God down everyone's throat, always after money." Then she continued with something stranger. "I'm a Christian too you know. I don't have to go to church to know right from wrong.' All of this, virtually in the same breath. How can someone just write off Christians and with the same breath seek to identify with them? I believe that the good news about Jesus has this kind of effect on eople. I remember when I was little, kicking my brother's bike. I told him it was a lousy bike and I could ride it better than him and I was getting a better one. None of it was true of course, especially the bit about me getting one.

The Bible says that, 'All have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God." All the same in that respect Then it says, "And are justified freely by grace through the redemption which is in Jesus Christ" Jesus died for everyone so that we ALL might live. Then the Bible says, "through faith". The barrier between us and God, which is called Sin, is removed by the sacrifice of Jesus. We can know Him and become Christians, "through faith". There is no need to kick against the Word of God. It's not a matter of being a "Do gooder", either. We can ALL receive for ourselves that which comes by faith, eternal life in the Lord Jesus Christ.
 

David Percy.