Anchor South West

We are in between major series on the way to 14 weeks in Exodus but this week we're going back to something shared on August 2, 2020 -- our first in-person pre-launch meeting. It's called "Who is Anchor South West?"  Listen in to get a glimpse of the things that are central to our heart, realities we want to wrestle with and be shaped by as we continue to journey together.

Paul's letter to the Ephesians ends with a call to warfare (Eph. 6:10-24). But Paul reminds us that our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the Powers & Principalities who seek to deform any benign, and even good, thing into a defining and ultimate reality; thereby dividing, dehumanising, and disordering our humanity. 

We hope you're encouraged!

This week Pastor Arnaldo will be walking us through Ephesians 6:1-9. As Paul unpacks a new household code, he will use the form but subvert it to serve the purposes of the kingdom of God. Rather than call on husbands, fathers, and masters to use their position of social power for themselves, they are commanded to a mutual love that seeks to serve rather than be served.

Anchor City pastor Matt Sparks leads us through Ephesians 5:21-30, where we explore the concept of a Spirit-filled marriage being one of mutual submission and wholly giving of yourself to the other, as a picture of the grand narrative of Jesus and his bride (the church). 

We pray you are blessed by this resource and hope to see you at South West soon!

As we approach the finish line in the letter of Ephesians, Pastor Arnaldo walks us through Ephesians 5:1-14 as we explore the cruciform life that we are called to live in light of the gospel.

We pray you are blessed by this resource and hope to see you at South West soon!

Fashion is a trillion dollar business annually - it matters. It matters more than we think and what we wears can actually change us. The fashion industry understands the dynamic that what we do, really ends up doing something to us! 

This week our lead pastor, Arnaldo, will walk us through Ephesians 4:17-32 where Paul will call the Ephesians to put off the old humanity and put on the new. We are called to partner with God in the very renovation of our souls.  

Last week Arnaldo closed off the first half of the book of Ephesians!

We live in a hyper-individualised world. This is no surprise; but the way in which this posture in the world has affected the church has been nothing short of disastrous. 

This week's message is about Paul's prayer for power to comprehend the love of Christ toward his people. But this needs to be understood in its communal context.

Listen in as Pastor Arnaldo walks us through Ephesians 3:14-21 teaching us that there are dimensions of God's love that we cannot experience apart from deep communion with others.

Since the gospel has as much to say to our horizontal relationships as it does to our vertical relationship with the Trinity, Paul explores how because the wall of hostility was brought down in the body of Jesus, different ethnicities stand on equal footing in relation to the promises of God.

And now the things that the fallen powers and principalities would use to separate us are used to display God's manifold wisdom.  

Join us!

The cross of Christ does not just deal with the vertical but the horizontal. It obliterates, not just the alienation between us and God, but the alienation between us and us. The cross of Christ creates a new reality in which we are invited to participate, a new humanity, a new 'us'.

Join us this week as Pastor Arnaldo explores the ways the cross overcomes the deep hostility of both the ancient and the modern world.