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DID YOU KNOW?
We have found a new home!!
at….24 Fifth Ave, Ascot Park.
Ascot Community Church have agreed to share their building with us.
Discussions concerning the terms and
conditions of rental, and our use of the building are in progress!
UNITING
CHURCH
13 JULY 2014
More details soon SO watch this space...
Sunday July 27
We will be having a
Congregational
Meeting to vote on
the recommendation
that Andrew K
continue as
Associate Pastor
with The Fish Gate.
Would you prefer
to direct debit
your giving?
Bank Details
Name:
The Fish Gate
Uniting Church
BSB:
035 045
Acc No: 234919
Westpac Marion
See Ruth
(treasurer)
We meet in the name of the Triune God The Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit – One God
Notices
The Fish Gate Details
Church Camp
At the corner of Hampton St and Clifton St, Hawthorn
We need to know accurate attendance numbers soon for
our camp at Shiloh Hills … Fri Sept 12-Sun 14th.
Please register your interest today,
on the list being passed around...thankyou!
Friday Food
Friday July 18th
at 6.30pm Cost $24.50 pp
Meet at Fresh Choice 373 Diagonal Rd, Sturt.
RSVP to Anne or Peter on 0400 022 163
Craft Connections
Next on Sat July 26th at Ruth’s.
Bring $5, your lunch and snacks and your craft activity.
Tea and coffee provided.
If this date clashes with our move to Ascot Park
we will schedule another date and let you know.
Let Ruth or Anne know if you can join them...thanks!
FAMILY MEAL Sunday August 3
It will be greatly appreciated that we all bring a
“Pot-Luck’ to share!!
What’s in a Name ??
The FISH GATE was inspired by the name of one of the twelve gates into ancient Jerusalem. Through
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ISSUE
Church Details
FISH GATE was the market from which food and supplies were distributed throughout the city.
place where we can come to share the joy, peace, hope and love of Christian community.
To be really alive we need spiritual food just as much as we need physical food.
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Our Name?
that gate food and goods entered the city from the sea docks and agricultural areas. Just inside the
Our FISH GATE continues to be a source of spiritual food, feeding and sustaining our spirits. It is a
Welcome to
The Fish Gate
THE FISH GATE
Deadline for items
10am Thurs please
(see email address)
Ministers
Rev David Kowalick
0413 098 965
Rev Andrew Klynsmith 0401 935 823
Service
Communion
Children’s Church
5.00pm Sunday
3rd Sun service/month
During message in school terms
Emails
Admin
Web
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.fishgate.org.au
Family Meal
1st Sunday each month
Please join us in the Hall following our service for
supper/cuppa each week
This Week
Mon Jul 14
Wed Jul 16
Thu Jul 17
Fri July 18
Bible Study
Bible Study at Kath’s
Bible Study at Andrew’s
Council Meeting
Friday Food
7.30pm
7.30pm
7.30pm
6.30pm
6.30pm
Christian worship is the realization and participation in the relationship
Jesus Christ has with the Father in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
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Fish Gate Life
Bible Study:
Leader
Every Monday (not public holidays) 7.30pm
Jess 0432 642 195
Prayer Group:
Leader
Host
2nd & 4th Tue/month
2.30-4.30pm
Vicki 8356 0858
Kaye 9/592 Cross Rd Plympton South
Bible Studies
1. Leader:
2. Leader:
1st & 3rd Wed/month
7.30pm
David Kowalick at Kath’s (Edwardstown)
Andrew Klynsmith at Andrew’s (Happy Valley)
Church Prayer/
Healing Meeting:
2nd Wed/month
7.30pm
Hills Home Group:
4th Wed/month
7.30pm
Contact:
Peter 0400 022 163
Friday Food:
Contact:
3rd Fri/month
Ann 8278 3481
Craft Connections:
Contact:
Sat approx. every 6 wks
Ruth 8297 9574
Pastoral Care:
Contact:
Andrew (0401 935 823)
Elders Meetings
2nd Thursday/month
7.30pm
Council Meetings
3rd Thurs / month
6.30pm
Supper:
Contact:
After service in the hall
Catering Committee
Family Meal:
1st Sunday/month after service
10am-4pm
2014
Over chapters seven and eight in the epistle to the Romans, Paul uses the
word ‘law’ variously to speak of ‘marriage law’ (Romans 7:2), the ‘Law of
Moses’ (7:6), the ‘law of God’ (7:2), the ‘law of my mind’ (7:22), ‘the law
of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus’ (8:1), and the ‘law of sin and death.’
Clearly Paul is using the word ‘law’ to speak not just of ordinances but of
various regimes or systems or powers.
His argument is complex but essentially he is showing us that the ordinance
of the Mosaic Law reveals in us another law called the ‘law of sin and
death’ and the incapacity for us to keep the Law of God unaided. There is
therefore a conflict of laws inside our humanity. The ‘law of sin and death’
in opposition to the ‘law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.’ As Paul has it,
‘For God has done what the law, weakened by the flesh, could not do: by
sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, and to deal with sin, he
condemned sin in the flesh, so that the just requirements of the law might be
fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the
Spirit” (8:3-4).
These two verses are right at the heart of the work of Christ and are the key
to our life and faith. The Law of God describes something we cannot obtain
apart from Christ. Law unmasks our brokenness and powerlessness to ever
respond rightly to God. We are then compelled to realise that Jesus Christ is
the only person who can, and who has responded to God in the fullness that
the Law describes.
But we are not left there in a state of hopelessness. For not only has God
made the first move toward us, but he has also in Christ completed the
second move to respond to him. Now by the Spirit through faith we have
been included in Christ vicariously. Once we are arrested by this grace, and
embrace it by faith, we discover a new kind of freedom to respond—or as
Paul has it: we are now under the influence of the ‘law of the Spirit of life in
Christ Jesus.’
In faith
David Kowalick
Next Week
Sun July 20
Mon July 21
Tues July 22
Wed July 23
Sat July 26
JULY
Communion Service
Bible Study
Prayer Group
Hills Home Group
Craft Connections
5pm
7.30pm
2.30-4.30pm
7.30pm
10am-4pm
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