30/08/2026
A beautiful clear winter Sunday in Moss Vale — sunshine, a definite chill in the air, and plenty happening as we gathered together across our three services.
At 10:30, Joh took us into the closing section of 1 Timothy 6, with four memorable words:
Flee. Follow. Fight. Fasten.
We all have things we run from, things we pursue and things we’re prepared to fight for. Paul calls Timothy to make sure they’re the right things.
Flee false teaching and the love of money. Paul warns against teaching that distorts the gospel, majors on the minors, or treats godliness as a pathway to material gain. Instead, godliness with contentment is great gain. We brought nothing into this world, and we’ll take nothing out of it.
Follow — or actively pursue — righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance and gentleness. The Christian life isn’t passive. Jesus didn’t call us to be spectators.
Fight the good fight of the faith. Not every disagreement has the same importance, but there are truths worth guarding: who God is, who Jesus is, what he has done, and the gospel of salvation. In a world where we can turn to almost anything — including AI — for answers, we need to keep asking where our truth comes from.
And fasten ourselves to Christ. Joh used the picture of a tandem skydive: your security rests in being firmly attached to the one who knows what he is doing. So too, our hope is not ultimately in our possessions, success or security, but in Jesus.
There was plenty happening around the gathering too — children playing, young people reading the Bible and helping lead us in song, conversations over morning tea, and people of different ages and stages sharing life together. Then the winter sunshine drew plenty of us outside afterwards.
A good Sunday to be reminded again that we are not simply attending church. We are Christ’s people, learning together to flee what draws us away from him, follow what is good, fight for the faith, and hold fast to Jesus.
“For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it.”
1 Timothy 6:7