Basingstoke Church

This week we are joined by Richard Fothergill, Director of The Filling Station, which is a network of monthly gatherings of around 60 meetings worldwide, gathering to worship, pray, seek spiritual renewal and share the Good News of Jesus Christ. The Filling Station had their annual conference this weekend, hosted this year at Basingstoke Church.

Richard shares incredible stories of God at work, and people having life- changing encounters with Jesus. He also encourages us through Mark 16, that as we live in the reality of the risen Jesus, and walk in the power and presence of the Holy Spirit, signs, wonders and spiritual gifts should be a normal part of Christian life. We help build and expand the kingdom of God as we walk in that way, as the miraculous becomes a testimony that points to Jesus.

📖 Bible passage: Mark 16:15-18

🎙 Speaker: Richard Fothergill

⛪ Basingstoke Church

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What does it look like to let the Holy Spirit help us live as God’s children, as heirs and not just servants who do his work?

In this second talk of our Rooted series, John Hudson looks at Romans 8:14-17, and how the Holy Spirit helps us receive our identity as children of God, and function from that place as heirs. Before anything is asked of us, belonging is settled: we are sons and daughters, not hired hands. This is what adoption really meant in the first century - and out of this security we go deeper into what God has for us.

Whether you're exploring faith, newly following, or years in and running on empty, this is an invitation to re-root yourself in Jesus and go deeper.

Bible passage: Romans 8:14-17


Speaker: Revd John Hudson


Series: Rooted

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What does it mean to be called by God — not just into ministry, but in your workplace, your home and your everyday life?

In this first talk of our Rooted series, John Hudson looks at Luke 5:1–11, where Jesus calls Simon Peter by the Sea of Galilee. We don't follow Jesus because we chose to try harder; we follow because he called us first. Simon moves through four moments of revelation and response: lending Jesus his boat, letting down his nets "because you say so", falling to his knees, and leaving everything to follow.

Whether you're exploring faith, newly following, or years in and running on empty, this is an invitation to your next response.

Bible passage: Luke 5:1–11

Speaker: Revd John Hudson

Series: Rooted

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Libby helps us look at how ordinary believers in Acts, scattered by hardship into Antioch, become the ones who start something new - a church so alive that it can't help but multiply. Three thousand, five thousand, a great number, more added daily, and so it grows!

What might God have each of us do to make space and spaces for people to encounter him ?

In part 2 of Vision Sunday, John looks at what it means for us to notice what God is already doing across Basingstoke and make room for it. That includes a 150-year-old prayer discovered in our own library, now written above our door, and the stories of people meeting God on dog walks, in hospital and in front of the TV. If you've ever wondered whether church is for "people like you," this one's for you.

In Acts we see the early church struggling to cover all the ministries that needed to happen as they grew so rapidly. Similarly for us today, we need to be releasing more people into ministry, to make space for more and more people to come fully alive in Jesus through the Holy Spirit. That is only made possible by everyone giving, praying and serving. Where might God be calling you to sew into the transforming work he is doing in Basingstoke?

The apostles in Acts don't only talk about God's kingdom - people fall under its shadow and

get healed. What does it look like for us as a church today to expect the supernatural as normal, to show the invisible King as visible. Where do we want God to demonstrate and show his power? Where do we expect God to show up, and where have we quietly stopped asking?

Having received everything, the early church hold nothing too tightly: money, homes, whatever's

needed, wherever the need is. This is grace with nowhere else to go but outward. Generosity is a direct result of grace freely received. What should our response to the grace of God be today?

Matt and Hannah from Beacon Church Blackpool join us to share faith-filled stories of the power of prayer. In Acts too, we see the early church, although under pressure, are filled with the Spirit and praying in faith for God to provide and deliver. What would change for us today if we actually believed prayer moved anything?

Everything begins here - Jesus' promise landing as wind and fire on an unremarkable room of people, giving them ability to speak different languages to let everyone know in their own native tongue that they belonged. Pentecost is the ignition point of the church. Today we too are sent out, full of the spirit, to speak about Jesus in a language that others understand.