Newlife Church: Coolangatta

A number of our young adults, who are budding ministry leaders, as well as Catalyst participants, were given the opportunity to preach on Sunday and share the word around 1 Peter 5. Juxtaposing pride and humility, Mikka and Danyon beautifully navigated the complexities of following Jesus in a spiritually distant culture.

This is a message by Ps. Scott Wrigely from our Vision Month series. We hope and pray it’s been a blessing to you. Make sure if you haven’t yet; subscribe to our channel and follow our social accounts to stay up to date and be encouraged throughout the week! For more information about Newlife head to https://www.church.nu or follow us: Facebook: https://facebook.com/newlifecoolangatta Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/newlifecoolangatta_

All of us have a calendar. Whether it is written or whether it is felt, we structure our lives in one way or another. The career-driven person has a work-week schedule; the new parent structures their life around the cry of their infant; and the entertainment-addicted modern shapes their rhythms around Netflix and new cinema releases. Each of us adopt a rhythm to the lives that we live. Now, this wouldn’t be so serious if the rhythms we adopt did nothing to us. But they do. The rhythms we adopt, the habits we entertain, and the practices we put ourselves through—these are not just things we do, these are all things that do something to us. In fact, this is how people are formed. Psychologists know this; dieticians know this; neurologists know this; and, believe it or not, ancient wisdom writers knew this. Every rhythm, every habit, every practice—they all, for better or worse, carry us toward an image of the good life. The question we need to ask ourselves is not whether we’re being formed into something; but what we’re being formed into. For the Christian, the image of the good life comes to us in Jesus. Jesus is the king in whose kingdom we want to live; Jesus is the person we want to follow after; and Jesus is the character we want to transform into. Dallas Willard, in his book The Great Omission, said, “The greatest issue facing the world today, with all its heartbreaking needs, is whether those who, by profession or culture, are identified as ‘Christians’ will become disciples – students, apprentices, practitioners – of Jesus Christ, steadily learning from him how to live the life of the Kingdom of the Heavens into every corner of human existence.” This is the journey of spiritual formation. Or, in other words, discipleship. “Rhythms”—which we’re using as a catch-all term to refer to the calendar, habits, and practices in our lives—exists to help God’s people to take their formation seriously; to see it as a vital part of their discipleship. Humans are creatures that get both deformed through the everyday, so we need to be able to be Christ-formed through the everyday. Richard Foster, the modern writer on all things spiritual disciplines, says, “The discovery of God lies in the daily and the ordinary, not in the spectacular and the heroic. If we cannot find God in the routines of home and shop, then we will not find Him at all.” In this series, as years progress, we will teach on the spiritual disciplines with the hope that it would give our people a robust understanding of spiritual formation, an ever-increasing practice of spiritual disciplines, and a more obvious sense that we’re becoming more like Jesus. This is a message from Rebekah Munn from our series, Rhythms. We hope and pray it's been a blessing to you. Make sure if you haven't yet; subscribe to our channel and follow our social accounts to stay up to date and be encouraged throughout the week! For more information about Newlife head to https://www.church.nu or follow us: https://facebook.com/newlifebrisbane https://www.instagram.com/newlifebrisbane https://youtube.com/newlifechurchau

Scott shared with us on Sunday around our sermon series titled 'Crucial Conversations'. As Christians, we believe it’s important our discipleship to Jesus includes increased thought in areas of change in culture and society. We need to have crucial conversations. But what does it mean to walk the way of Jesus well in the different tensions our culture is currently facing? What does it look like to have tough conversations with the vision to be more like Jesus? Jesus didn't run from cultural moments, but spoke, or lived directly into them. As we step into these moments, whether in the courtyard after church, at small group, around the table at dinner or at work, let’s be reminded of Christ’s example and let love, kindness and gentleness be our foundation. Join us this Sunday for our new series, Crucial Conversations! Make sure if you haven't yet; subscribe to our channel, comment the gold you got from this message and give this video a thumbs up. For more information about Newlife head to https://www.church.nu or follow us: https://facebook.com/newlifegoldcoast Gold Coast https://www.instagram.com/newlifegoldcoast Brisbane https://www.instagram.com/newlifebrisbane Coolangatta https://www.instagram.com/newlifecoolangatta

Refugees

Work That Redeems

Prayer as Mission

Conversations That Matter

Bless The City

Scott shared with us on Sunday around our sermon series titled 'RE:WORK'. Many of us spend most of our waking hours involved in some kind of vocation. You might be a butcher or a baker, a mother or a father, unemployed or studying full-time, a CEO in the corporate world or a shift-worker in the health sector. The question most of us ask is, “Does what I do even matter?” In other words, it’s a question of purpose, calling, and the ultimate significance of what we do with the majority of our lives. The Christian story is not silent to these questions. Not unrelated, the question for the Christian is, “How do we live out our faith at work?” Typically, this topic gets addressed through the prism of two larger categories: faith and work. The problem with this is that it suggests that “faith” is already something separate from “work”; that faith seems like something Christians do on a Sunday and work is something they do throughout the week. More than that, it means that faith can easily become a set of ideas we feel we just need to talk about to our colleagues or friends, rather than having a fully-orbed framework for what it means to be a faithful presence at work, to do work faithfully, and to let the kingdom permeate our calling with word and deed. The Bible’s invitation is that we might see work as something which God himself mandated, as something in which God is already involved, and as something which Christians are called to inhabit differently. Join us this Sunday as start our new series, RE:WORK! For more information about Newlife head to https://www.church.nu