Neville tells his story of how he got to where he is now and what he's looking forward to in his life as a church leader.

Christ died so that you would know freedom from the rules and traditions. When we focus on the 'don't's we deny the joy in freedom.

Standing in front of a cave in Caeserea Philippi, Jesus promised to build his church and the gates of hell, represented by the gate, would not overcome it.

The church is not Sunday morning meetings, programmes or even the kingdom. It’s you and me — the people.

When we say the word holiness, the way we act, where we go and, even, what we wear comes to mind.

As we look into Scripture and what it says on the subject, it becomes more apparent that it’s about what we’re devoted to. As we become more and more like Christ in how we love others, our lives are now shaped by him and directed towards him.

The table is a gift, a tool and a weapon. How often we take communion and where we take it is not important. It is our posture that matters.

The bread and the wine carry a lot of meaning, but the key to the bread is thankfulness, and the wine is proclamation.

In a world of increasing judgement the church needs to communicate grace. Every person you meet, Jesus has said “yes” to.

As we read Galatians we see that Paul was hurt to see that shortly after he preached a gospel of grace, the church fell foul to the religious ideologies that infiltrated the church shortly after.

There have been 100 million songs written about love and 700 films have been released this year that have love as a theme. There are hundreds of online dating apps. Love seems to be everywhere, but this is clearly a broken world.

The essence of God is love – so what does this mean to a world that has often misunderstood the real meaning of love?

As we continue to look at the Bride of Christ, we need to challenge the "church shopping" culture that is slowly weakening the core focus of why the church exists.

Church shopping means we focus on the performance, the preaching and the professionalism and we miss the goal of worship Abba Father.

The start of a new series focussing on the Church: an institution that is loved and hated both inside and outside of it.

Have we forgotten why Christ designed it how he did? Have we elevated the wrong things and forgotten the aspects that truly make it shine?

Purely by existing we're significant to God. But in God's kingdom things are a bit more upside-down, and what significance looks like in society is different to what it looks like in the kingdom. Quite often, it's the ones who recognise their smallness, and God's bigness and find comfort in that.