We all want our churches to be more than clubs, more than institutions and more than events that we turn up to each week. We want to experience the joy of real community with other Christians.

But let’s face it: that joy is elusive. Our churches often feel more like clubs, institutions or events than genuine communities. Why is that? And what can we do about it?

In this Centre for Christian Living event, we’re going to explore what Christian community really is, how it is created and sustained, and what each one of us can do to experience its joys.

Speakers:

Chase Kuhn teaches theology and philosophy, Christian thought and ministry at Moore College.

Tony Payne is the Director of the Centre for Christian Living.

Our tagline here at the Centre for Christian Living is “bringing biblical ethics to everyday issues”, and we’ve done by that by addressing a very wide range of “everyday issues” over the past several years.

But now we’d like to do explicitly something we’ve been doing implicitly all that time: teaching you how to bring biblical ethics to every issue, whatever it might be.

In this Saturday morning mini-course, we’ll be teaching a simple framework for bringing the Bible’s view of reality to how we should live in the midst of reality day by day—whether in our homes, our churches, our workplace or in society. We want to teach you, in other words, how to do “Christian ethics”.

“A very short course in Christian ethics” will run from 9:30am–1:00pm on Saturday, May 25 2019 at Moore College. We’ll provide morning tea, but leave you to enjoy the culinary delights of Newtown yourself for lunch.

Speakers:

Chase Kuhn teaches theology and philosophy, Christian thought and ministry at Moore College.

Tony Payne is the Director of the Centre for Christian Living.

Like a number of the radical movements of the 1960s and 70s, environmentalism is now a normal and mainstream part of our culture. Our kids learn it from kindergarten.

But how should we think about environmentalism as Christians? Do we need to save the planet? Is the future of our world at stake?

As Christians, we need to answer these questions by asking the other question we should always ask: what does the Bible say about this? Does God care about the world and what we do with it? Is God green?

Moore College lecturer Lionel Windsor has recently written a book called “Is God Green?”, and in this CCL event, he’ll introduce us to what the Bible says about the environment, where the world is headed, and what we should do about it in the here and now.

Speaker:

Lionel Windsor teaches New Testament, Greek and Hebrew at Moore College.