In Entering the Passion of Jesus, author, professor, and biblical scholar Amy-Jill Levine explores the biblical texts surrounding the Passion story. She shows us how the text raises ethical and spiritual questions for the reader, and how we all face risk in our Christian experience.

Ponder:
Picture yourself as a part of the crowd, what are you crying out?
Are you thinking of a political revolution, or of peace?
What do you need saving from today?
What does our community need to be saved from today?

“Christians will be found in the neighbourhood of Jesus – but Jesus is found in the neighbourhood of human confusion and suffering, defencelessly alongside those in need. If being baptized is being led to where Jesus is, then being baptized is being led towards the chaos and the neediness of a humanity that has forgotten its own destiny.”

Rowan Williams, Being Christian

Ponder:

Where do you find Jesus in your neighbourhood?

Six days before the Passover Jesus came to Bethany, the home of Lazarus, whom he had raised from the dead.

There they gave a dinner for him. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those at the table with him.

Mary took a pound of costly perfume made of pure nard, anointed Jesus’ feet, and wiped them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.

But Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who was about to betray him), said, “Why was this perfume not sold for three hundred denarii and the money given to the poor?” (He said this not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he kept the common purse and used to steal what was put into it.)

Jesus said, “Leave her alone. She bought it so that she might keep it for the day of my burial.

You always have the poor with you, but you do not always have me.”

Ponder:
What are you willing to place at the feet of Jesus this Lent?
What have you been saving for the right time, perhaps today is the day?

There will be no Spice Kids Luncheon this month. Our next gathering will be the last Sunday in March.

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GUC will be looking to employ a book keeper early 2019, the role is 5 hours a week and would be great for people with previous experience and skills in operating MYOB and organisations like the church.

Expressions of Interest to Darren Wright or Matt Grudnoff.