The Forge Community Church is a church in Suffolk with a mission to help people find and follow Jesus. The Forge meet physically in Debenham Community Center and have environments for adults kids and youth. We also offer church online so you can connect with the Forge anywhere, anytime, not just those in Mid Suffolk.

The Forge Community Church is a church in Suffolk with a mission to help people find and follow Jesus. The Forge meet physically in Debenham Community Center and have environments for adults kids and youth. We also offer church online so you can connect with the Forge anywhere, anytime, not just those in Mid Suffolk.

The Conscience Question

When we ask ourselves the right questions, answer honestly, then act appropriately, we make better decisions with fewer regrets. But what are the questions we should be asking? In this series, we'll explore five of them!

The Integrity Question

Deciding the way forward

Being confident is an important thing … in everyday life we want to be confident in our opinions, confident in the people around us, and confident in ourselves … and why not? Being confident can be a source of assurance and security … something that all of us want. Yet when it comes to the subject of eternity and where we’ll spend it … many of us don’t have confidence … in this final instalment of our series we’re going to explore the invitation Jesus gives us to come to Him and to be fully confident in His salvation - that He is enough!

In the words of a famous old worship song “Everyone needs forgiveness, the kindness of a saviour - let mercy fall on me” … it’s a beautiful line … yet in Jesus’ day, just as in ours … there are some who recognised their need for a saviour and some who didn’t … this week we’re going to explore some of the words of Jesus through the lens of those who knew they needed His forgiveness, kindness and mercy.

Forrest Gump famously described life as a box of chocolates — “you never knew what you’re gonna get!” … and whilst I wouldn’t dare argue with the great Tom Hanks, I prefer to think of life as a cocktail … a real mixture. Unfortunately as members of the human family we are never a mixture of purely good things … instead we tend to be a mixture of both beauty and disaster! Whether it’s kindness and selfishness, generosity and greed, encouragement and criticism … we are all a truly mixed bag! We are all just like the world we live in … a mixture of both beauty and disaster! … Yet whilst all of us can point to disaster in ourselves … in God’s story there is beauty on the horizon.

How would you sum up the story of the Bible in a sentence? It’s a weird thought in some ways … to try and pack thousands of years of history, personalities, stories and people’s real lives into a short sentence … but if you were pushed … what would you say? Maybe you’d say something like, ‘follow the rules and God will like you!’ Maybe you’d say ‘the world went wrong and God was pretty annoyed!’ It’s understandable that we might take ideas like these and throw them into a headline … however trying to unpack the story of the Bible without involving the word ‘faith’ isn’t going to get us very far …