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Natural Disasters, War in Ukraine, and Worldliness in the Church // In the News


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How can we answer questions about suffering? What is a right response to the ongoing war in Ukraine? How do we avoid worldliness creeping into our churches?

In this episode of In:Dependence, Phil Topham (FIEC Executive Director), Adrian Reynolds (FIEC Head of National Ministries), and John Stevens (FIEC National Director) discuss some of the big stories in the news this week.

00:00 - Introduction

00:21 - Earthquakes in Turkey and Syria
03:45 - Answering questions about God allowing suffering
07:25 - Luke 13 and human suffering
08:54 - The ongoing war in Ukraine
17:00 - The General Synod vote on same sex blessings
20:28 - How do we protect against worldliness creeping into the church?
28:53 - God and pronouns

Resources mentioned in this episode
  • Turkey earthquake: Death toll could increase eight-fold, WHO says (bbc.co.uk)
  • Volodymyr Zelensky makes history with speech to UK Parliament (bbc.co.uk)
  • FIEC beliefs and ethos statements (fiec.org.uk)
  • Church of England priests push for non-gendered pronouns in prayers (thetimes.co.uk)
  • You can watch a video of this episode on the FIEC website.

    About In:Dependence: In:Dependence is FIEC’s official podcast, where you’ll hear teaching and resources for church leaders from the FIEC Ministry Team and guests from FIEC churches and partners. You can access video podcasts by subscribing to the FIEC YouTube channel.

    About FIEC: We are a fellowship of Independent churches with members of the family across England, Scotland and Wales. Our mission is to see those Independent churches working together with a big vision: to reach Britain for Christ. Being part of FIEC links you to a growing number of Independent evangelical churches and there are now more than 50,000 people who are part of churches affiliated to FIEC.

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