This week Belinda Lakelin shares some reflections on the raising of Lazarus in John 11 and what we learn about Jesus from this sign and what it means to follow him.

We follow the resurrection and the life even in the midst of trouble, sickness, and death and we wait for the day when Jesus will call us out of everything that binds us and they will have to let us go. Do you believe this?

I hope you have been encouraged by this message and spurred on to imitate Martha's confession; recalling all we know of our friend Jesus and placing our faith in him.

Don't forget that you can find our discipleship menu for this series on our website under the Next Steps tab and growing, join us as we seek to follow Jesus together.

Is there someone you know who really needs to hear this message? Why not share it with them and see what God does through it. 

If you'd like to join us online, we meet at gbconline.org.au at 9:30am AEST. We'd love for you to join us.

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This week we heard two different sermons on two different passages in John's gospel. This is the second of them, preached in our evening congregation by Matt Willis. In this message Matt takes us through John 9 and the experience of the man born blind who provides us with a model of what it looks like to follow Jesus.

We too have been invited to follow the light of the world and that invitation is given to us right where we are; this is where following Jesus begins. As the formerly blind man demonstrates for us where we start is not nearly as important as where we end up. Start following Jesus and see where it leads you.

Don't forget that you can find our discipleship menu for this series on our website under the Next Steps tab and growing, join us as we seek to follow Jesus together.

Is there someone you know who really needs to hear this message? Why not share it with them and see what God does through it. 

If you'd like to join us online, we meet at gbconline.org.au at 9:30am AEST. We'd love for you to join us.

If you're in the area and would like to visit us physically visit our website gymeabaptist.org.au for all our Onsite Service times. Also, be sure to follow us on Facebook or Instagram to keep up with all we are doing.

This week we heard two different sermons on two different passages in John's gospel. The first, preached in our morning services by Roxane Lawler, explored Nicodemus' night-time visit to Jesus in John 3 and what we can learn about following Jesus from this interaction.

As we spend time with Jesus, bringing our questions and confusion, we are invited to recognise who he is and receive the life he offers which may challenge what we are currently grasping that is holding us back from taking up the right to be called children of God.

Nicodemus' journey to recognise who Jesus was and to receive life from him was a long one but one that, I hope, has provided you with the encouragement to continue to follow his example.

Don't forget that you can find our discipleship menu for this series on our website under the Next Steps tab and growing, join us as we seek to follow Jesus together.

Is there someone you know who really needs to hear this message? Why not share it with them and see what God does through it. 

If you'd like to join us online, we meet at gbconline.org.au at 9:30am AEST. We'd love for you to join us.

If you're in the area and would like to visit us physically visit our website gymeabaptist.org.au for all our Onsite Service times. Also, be sure to follow us on Facebook or Instagram to keep up with all we are doing.

As we continue to explore John's unique perspective on following Jesus we turn to yet another "I am" passage; "I am the Good Shepherd" in John 10 where we learn again that following Jesus begins with Jesus.

Before the ethical imperatives or moral models of following Jesus there is a simple directive for those who want to follow Jesus: learn to recognise his voice and follow him. This familiarity comes through individual  disciplines but also in community as we learn together to hear his voice and follow him.

I hope you've been encouraged this week to learn to listen to Jesus as we follow him together.

Do you have one or two people in your life who can help you check your blind spots? These people are a gift to us to faithfully follow Jesus. Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Don't forget that you can find our discipleship menu for this series on our website under the Next Steps tab and growing, join us as we seek to follow Jesus together.

Is there someone you know who really needs to hear this message? Why not share it with them and see what God does through it. 

If you'd like to join us online, we meet at gbconline.org.au at 9:30am AEST. We'd love for you to join us.

If you're in the area and would like to visit us physically visit our website gymeabaptist.org.au for all our Onsite Service times. Also, be sure to follow us on Facebook or Instagram to keep up with all we are doing.

In this message, the second of two different sermons this week, Belinda Lakelin - an evangelism consultant with the Baptist Association of NSW & ACT and with us here at GBC - shares insights from the feeding of the 5,000 and the challenge, invitation and encouragement that we encounter in John 6.

Following Jesus, perhaps unsurprisingly, means allowing him to set the agenda and follow the crucified king. Following him will be filled with questions, doubts, and uncertainty, but we are encouraged to follow the one who has the words of eternal life just as we are.

Do you have one or two people in your life who can help you check your blind spots? These people are a gift to us to faithfully follow Jesus. Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Don't forget that you can find our discipleship menu for this series on our website under the Next Steps tab and growing, join us as we seek to follow Jesus together.

Is there someone you know who really needs to hear this message? Why not share it with them and see what God does through it. 

If you'd like to join us online, we meet at gbconline.org.au at 9:30am AEST. We'd love for you to join us.

If you're in the area and would like to visit us physically visit our website gymeabaptist.org.au for all our Onsite Service times. Also, be sure to follow us on Facebook or Instagram to keep up with all we are doing.

This week we continue to explore the ways that John describes discipleship in his gospel. In this message, the first of two different sermons this week, considers Jesus' invitation to follow him; the light of the world.

When we follow the light of the world we are being led to the Father from whence we receive an identity, a purpose, and a mission. Like Jesus himself, we find our identity in relationship with the Father, are invited to know the Father more and more, and to join the Father in his restoring work.

May you be about the work of a lighthouse keeper this week; revealing Jesus and participating in rescue when opportunity calls!

Do you have one or two people in your life who can help you check your blind spots? These people are a gift to us to faithfully follow Jesus. Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Don't forget that you can find our discipleship menu for this series on our website under the Next Steps tab and growing, join us as we seek to follow Jesus together.

Is there someone you know who really needs to hear this message? Why not share it with them and see what God does through it. 

If you'd like to join us online, we meet at gbconline.org.au at 9:30am AEST. We'd love for you to join us.

If you're in the area and would like to visit us physically visit our website gymeabaptist.org.au for all our Onsite Service times. Also, be sure to follow us on Facebook or Instagram to keep up with all we are doing.

As Term 2 begins we launched a new series entitled "Following Jesus in John's Gospel" in which we want to listen to John's unique take on discipleship. In this first message we have a look at the first instance of "following" in the gospel - as two disciples of John the Baptist begin to follow Jesus.

The first lessons we learn from John are that following Jesus is essentially about spending time with him and that our following is based on a continual invitation to follow him - from others, affirmed by Jesus, and to others.

Take up the invitation to spend time with Jesus and pass it on!

Do you have one or two people in your life who can help you check your blind spots? These people are a gift to us to faithfully follow Jesus. Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Don't forget that you can find our discipleship menu for this series on our website under the Next Steps tab and growing, join us as we seek to follow Jesus together.

Is there someone you know who really needs to hear this message? Why not share it with them and see what God does through it. 

If you'd like to join us online, we meet at gbconline.org.au at 9:30am AEST. We'd love for you to join us.

If you're in the area and would like to visit us physically visit our website gymeabaptist.org.au for all our Onsite Service times. Also, be sure to follow us on Facebook or Instagram to keep up with all we are doing.

Today we continue our short little series entitled On This Rock, Personal Reflections on Foundational Texts. This title is taken from Matthew Chapter 7, where Jesus says that anyone who hears his words and listens to them is like a wise person who built their house on a rock. This week, newly appointed Associate Pastor Roxanne Lawler reflects on the significance of Jesus’s words in Mark Chapter 8.

What does it profit someone to gain the whole world but to lose their soul? This question is more than simply a question that led an 8-year-old Roxanne Lawler to accept Jesus as her Lord and Saviour but continues to be a significant grid to help her and us. Make decisions about how we follow Jesus in our day to day lives.

Do you have one or two people in your life who can help you check your blind spots? These people are a gift to us to faithfully follow Jesus. Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Don't forget that you can find our discipleship menu for this series on our website under the Next Steps tab and growing, join us as we seek to follow Jesus together.

Is there someone you know who really needs to hear this message? Why not share it with them and see what God does through it. 

If you'd like to join us online, we meet at gbconline.org.au at 9:30am AEST. We'd love for you to join us.

If you're in the area and would like to visit us physically visit our website gymeabaptist.org.au for all our Onsite Service times. Also, be sure to follow us on Facebook or Instagram to keep up with all we are doing.

This week we start a sermon series that will recur throughout the year entitled "On this rock.. - personal reflections on foundational texts". Each sermon will be on a text, biblical character, or theme that has been particularly foundational for the preacher. The title is taken from Matthew 7 where Jesus says that "Anyone who hears his words and listens to them is like a wise person who built their house on a rock." This week, newly appointed associate pastor, Matt Willis reflects on what he has learned from Abraham about the promises of God.

We should expect to wait for the extraordinary promises of God to be fulfilled. I hope you have been encouraged to allow the promises of God to fill your heart, fire your imagination, and drive your actions as you journey with Him on the great road trip of faith.

Do you have one or two people in your life who can help you check your blind spots? These people are a gift to us to faithfully follow Jesus. Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Don't forget that you can find our discipleship menu for this series on our website under the Next Steps tab and growing, join us as we seek to follow Jesus together.

Is there someone you know who really needs to hear this message? Why not share it with them and see what God does through it. 

If you'd like to join us online, we meet at gbconline.org.au at 9:30am AEST. We'd love for you to join us.

If you're in the area and would like to visit us physically visit our website gymeabaptist.org.au for all our Onsite Service times. Also, be sure to follow us on Facebook or Instagram to keep up with all we are doing.

Our theme for Easter this year has been regeneration; inspired by the miraculous regeneration of the Australian bush after fires. This is the imagery that we are using to reflect on the hope we have in Jesus' resurrection.

What areas of your life do you need Jesus' resurrection power? Bring them to him and allow the risen Lord to restore and renew them.

Do you have one or two people in your life who can help you check your blind spots? These people are a gift to us to faithfully follow Jesus. Whoever has ears to hear, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches.

Don't forget that you can find our discipleship menu for this series on our website under the Next Steps tab and growing, join us as we seek to follow Jesus together.

Is there someone you know who really needs to hear this message? Why not share it with them and see what God does through it. 

If you'd like to join us online, we meet at gbconline.org.au at 9:30am AEST. We'd love for you to join us.

If you're in the area and would like to visit us physically visit our website gymeabaptist.org.au for all our Onsite Service times. Also, be sure to follow us on Facebook or Instagram to keep up with all we are doing.