Exeter Vineyard Church

We are taking four sessions to look at the second line of the Lor'd’s Prayer - Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. In this guided Bible Study we think about what this line means for us and how we can not only pray the words, but invite God's Kingship (and his will) into our everyday life.

We are taking four sessions to look at the second line of the Lor'd’s Prayer - Your Kingdom come, Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven.

Today Dave looks at the inferred absence in this line - that we live in a world where we don’t see God’s will or his Kingdom present. We look at a the common Biblical response to this: lament. Lamenting can feel shocking in our church culture and expectations, but it is a Biblical and powerful response and prayer to suffering.

We are starting a partnership with TLG - Transforming Lives for Good - in their early intervention programme. This involves trained mentors spending an hour a week with primary school children who are finding some aspect of school difficult, resulting in difficult behaviour or disrupting their educational opportunities.

This scheme has the potential to change lives with just a small investment at the right time. Listen to Josh explain the scheme. If you want more information about how to get involved, talk to him.

The Bible gives lots of instruction about what it is to be church and how to do it. But most of the instructions aren’t about the things we might expect - liturgy, songs, teaching, architecture, rotas… it’s about how we do certain things or hold certain attitudes to one another.

There are over fifty ‘one another’ commands in the New Testament. Over five weeks we’re looking at five themes of these ‘one another’ commands, so we can follow the Bible’s teaching and become better at ‘One Anothering’.

Today we talk about the reality of supporting each other and the radical, counter-cultural power of doing so.

The Bible gives lots of instruction about what it is to be church and how to do it. But most of the instructions aren’t about the things we might expect - liturgy, songs, teaching, architecture, rotas… it’s about how we do certain things or hold certain attitudes to one another.

There are over fifty ‘one another’ commands in the New Testament. Over five weeks we’re looking at five themes of these ‘one another’ commands, so we can follow the Bible’s teaching and become better at ‘One Anothering’.

This Bible Study looks at what it means to teach one another and why this is a privilege and responsibility for all of us.

The Bible gives lots of instruction about what it is to be church and how to do it. But most of the instructions aren’t about the things we might expect - liturgy, songs, teaching, architecture, rotas… it’s about how we do certain things or hold certain attitudes to one another.

There are over fifty ‘one another’ commands in the New Testament. Over five weeks we’re looking at five themes of these ‘one another’ commands, so we can follow the Bible’s teaching and become better at ‘One Anothering’.

Today we look at the command, “encourage one another” with its companion, “spur one another on”. Could we be a church that helps each other grow into God’s character, plan and purpose for us?

The Bible gives lots of instruction about what it is to be church and how to do it. But most of the instructions aren’t about the things we might expect - liturgy, songs, teaching, architecture, rotas… it’s about how we do certain things or hold certain attitudes to one another.

There are over fifty ‘one another’ commands in the New Testament. Over five weeks we’re looking at five themes of these ‘one another’ commands, so we can follow the Bible’s teaching and become better at ‘One Anothering’.

Today we look at Serving One Another. an idea hard-wired into God's Kingdom.

The Bible gives lots of instruction about what it is to be church and how to do it. But most of the instructions aren’t about the things we might expect - liturgy, songs, teaching, architecture, rotas… it’s about how we do certain things or hold certain attitudes to one another.

There are over fifty ‘one another’ commands in the New Testament. Over five weeks we’re looking at five themes of these ‘one another’ commands, so we can follow the Bible’s teaching and become better at ‘One Anothering’.

Today we look at the most common command, and the basis of all the others - Love One Another.

We are revisiting some of those classic Bible stories, often a staple of Sunday school classes, where we think we know what they're about - often simple morality tales - and examining whether there is anything more in there that connects with our real (and often confusingly messy) experience of God and everyday life.

Today Dave looks at the little talked about older brother in ‘The Parable of the Prodigal Son.’

Despite not being featured in the name we’ve given the parable, this son teaches us something so important about our life with God and just how amazingly loving the Father is.

We are revisiting some of those classic Bible stories, often a staple of Sunday school classes, where we think we know what they're about - often simple morality tales - and examining whether there is anything more in there that connects with our real (and often confusingly messy) experience of God and everyday life.

Today Dave looks at one of Jesus’ most famous parable - where even the name we’ve given it misses the point.

In Sunday School this is a cautionary tale to promote good, respectable behaviour, but today we see that ‘The Parable of the Prodigal Son’ is about something far more profound.