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Transform 025: Church Membership | ||
| When church membership is understood as being members of the body of Christ, it’s incredibly exciting and dynamic. | |||
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Transform 013: Making Goodness Fashionable | ||
| Welcome to the first edition of the all new Transform. After a period of consultation with local and regional ministers, secretaries and treasurers it has become clear that Transform is a highly valued and useful publication. We want to give you more of w | |||
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Transform 014: Creative God Creative People | ||
| Thank you for all of the feedback we have received following the re-launch of Transform. We are continuing to evolve the concept and if you have any further comments or ideas about how we could improve this publication please let us know. | |||
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Transform 015: The Miracle of Christian Fellowship | ||
| We hope that you’ll find this issue both informative and inspirational. Take a look at the events section (p29-31) and plan to come to Assembly or Leading Edge. Any statisticians reading should turn straight to the Annual Returns Report (p28). | |||
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Transform 016: Think 'Team' | ||
| This issue highlights many new initiatives, like the newly restructured Mission Department and the all new BUGB website. It also contains all the usual financial and legal information. On page 20 there you will find BUGB President Kate Coleman’s review of | |||
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Transform 017: Budgets… and faith | ||
| Budgets are, basically, good things! For many of us this is the time of year when the budget for 2008 will be considered and I wish you joy and blessing as you do so. A budget is an excellent way of focusing prayerful attention on the activities of y | |||
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Transform 018: A People of Hope | ||
| Donald Coggan, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, once described the word hope, as we use it in everyday speech, as “a weak and flabby word”. We need to be clear that the word in the New Testament has no weakness or flab about it at all! | |||
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Transform 019: Caring for God's Creation | ||
| Everyone is talking about caring for the planet these days - so it is hardly a surprise to find it in the new Baptist Union strategy! | |||
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Transform 020: An Open Door | ||
| We all have favourite expressions … and so did the apostle Paul! He often spoke of the doors that were open in his ministry. In 1 Corinthians 16.9 he wrote of the “great door for effective work” that had opened for him in Ephesus. | |||
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Transform 021: Baptist Identity | ||
| Roots are interesting. The BBC programme “Who do you think you are?” has dug away at some famous people’s roots and revealed some amazing facts. I will never see Boris Johnson, to name but one, in the same way again! | |||
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Transform 022: Administrators | ||
| This issue highlights crucial role played by administrators, secretaries, treasures, organisers of rotas and room bookings, and the people who take minutes.....to name a few. | |||
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Transform 023: Confidence in the Gospel | ||
| Every single church in the Baptist Union should be full of confidence in the gospel. If we are not confident in God’s good news we will place our confidence in a thousand and one other things. | |||
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Transform 024: Renewing Prayer | ||
| A New Year gives us a wonderful opportunity to renew our commitment to prayer. The last thing that God wants is for us to feel defeated and guilty. | |||
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