MP3

The MP3 recording of the meeting can be downloaded HERE

An Unholy War

Channel 4 Dispatches programme about the persecution that Muslim converts to Christianity face.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21967c24SRQ

Find out more about the suffering faced by fellow Christians worldwide.

http://www.releaseinternational.org/

This months recommended CD is Treasure by Lou Fellingham, the tracks 'Hard Pressed' and God of Mercy particularly relevant to the theme of the suffering church.

2 Corinthians 12 v10“I delight in weakness, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties”

Philippians 3 v10“I want to know Christ, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of sharing his sufferings.”

If God loves us so much, why is the New Testament full of promises that we will suffer? What kind of suffering does it mean?

TABLE QUESTIONS

1 What kind of suffering would you describe as ‘sharing in Christ’s sufferings’?

2 In what ways could this be a ‘good’ thing?

 

TABLE QUESTIONS - 2

1 Does suffering make us closer to God? Each other? More relevant to the world?

2 If so how?