Last Sunday, the church I go to had the official opening service for the new building, which we are all very grateful for. Here's a picture.
On a largely unrelated note, we were studying Galatians 5:13-26 in homegroup last night. Someone commented that some of the "acts of the sinful nature" in v19-20 weren't too common today, giving witchcraft as an example. However, the word translated "witchcraft" is φαρμακεια - pharmakeia, from which we get the English words pharmacy, pharmacology, pharmaceuticals and so on.
Needless to say, I'm not a JW, just thought it was an amusing etymological thing...
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Another interesting thought about that list is how many of those sins would even be recognised as sins in our culture - in the NIV we've got 'sexual immorality', 'selfish ambition', drunkeness' in the list - would people even acknowledge some of these things as 'wrong'...
Ah yes - tis true, tis true.
In the conservative evangelical ghetto, most of them would be immediately recognised as bad (well, with the possible exception of selfish ambition disguised as wanting to see God's glory through strategic gospel ministry), along with quite a few other things, some bad, some not.
I know plenty of people in theological education, even here, who wouldn't see them as bad at all though.
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