The new Bishop of Southwark, Christopher Chessun recently announced a call to mission across the diocese entitled ‘Faith, Hope and Love’. This will take place in three stages. The first of these, over the season of Lent in 2012, is the encouragement of individuals within each church to think about the ways in which they could show more of these virtues.
In response to this call, all of our sermons across the first three weeks of March will focus on the themes of ‘Living by Faith’, ‘Sharing Hope’ and ‘Showing Love’. In 1 Corinthians 13 Paul speaks of ‘Faith, Hope and Love’ as the things that, when everything else has passed away, will continue into the new creation that God will one day bring. These sermons will therefore seek to be practical and encourage us all to think about very concrete and specific ways in which we could develop these virtues more in our everyday lives.
25th March will then be slightly different with a focus on two very specific examples of mission to the outside world. During the three morning services that day we will focus on ‘World Water Day’ becoming better informed on this crucial issue and thinking about how we might respond. At six30@ccnm that day we will focus upon ‘The Night Shelter as Gospel’ as Christ Church hosts a special service for all those who were involved in the KCAH (Kingston Churches Action on Homelessness) Shelter this year.
