Church document details

Source:

Elm Grove Chronicle.

Title:

Goring Congregational Church - Ministers Message.

Date:

1944.

Body:

MINISTER'S MESSAGE.

It Is hoped that the occasional appearance of the Elm Grove Chronicle may serve to stimulate interest, and strengthen fellowship. If we fail to discover much latent literary ability, we shall nevertheless welcome contributions which have news value about the Kingdom of God. In our congregation at Elm Grove we have members of various Christian Churches, but we are one in seeking the Kingdom of God and His righteousness.

And it is good and pleasant to see the many ways in which the Christian Churches are acting together in the face of the demands of both the present and the future.

In our circumstances our activities are limited. We can meet on the Lord's Day for worship, morning and evening, and we have our Prayer Circle, but as yet we have not been able to find a place for a meeting in the week, nor have we a fully organized Church life. But these limitations do not bar us from contributing to the work of God's Kingdom.

There is real service in the life of faith and prayer, and in these times when worship is lightly regarded and neglected by many, the personal maintenance of it is of great value. Vital worship is life, formal worship is death. We give ourselves in praise, we give ourselves in prayer, we give ourselves in the hearing of the Word of God,that we may be more truly not our own,but His re-dedicated,re-empowered and re-commissioned for witness and service.

The immediate result of a sincere effort to worship may be tiring, though in the long, run It be beneficial.

F.J.H.Humphrey.

Transcription details

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Church(es) covered:

Goring United Reformed Church.

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