Liberty Church Bungay

01/03/2026

https://biologos.org/common-questions/how-should-we-interpret-the-bible?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQRR1hjbGNrBBFHD2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHkM6fBqVq64YvCDHh79sW2c-50vtt76kYH6W2qrzv6Cy4tzp4tBzug_h3c35_aem_bqaF3LETqsrTk7vHVi0xYg

Clues to the original meaning can be found in the style of language, the genre of literature, the original audience, and the historical and cultural context.

03/02/2026

The Basis Of Unity ( Ephesians 4:4-6)

4:4-6 There is one body and one Spirit, just as you have been called with one hope of your calling. There is one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in all.

Paul goes on to set down the basis on which Christian unity is founded.

(i) There is one body. Christ is the head and the Church is the body. No brain can work through a body which is split into fragments. Unless there is a coordinated oneness in the body, the designs of the head are frustrated. The oneness of the Church is essential for the work of Christ. That does not need to be a mechanical oneness of administration and of human organization; but it does need to be a oneness founded on a common love of Christ and of every part for the other.

(ii) There is one Spirit. The word pneuma ( G4151) in Greek means both spirit and breath; it is in fact the usual word for breath. Unless the breath be in the body, the body is dead; and the vitalizing breath of the body of the Church is the Spirit of Christ. There can be no Church without the Spirit; and there can be no receiving of the Spirit without prayerful waiting for him.

(iii) There is one hope in our calling. We are all proceeding towards the same goal. This is the great secret of the unity of Christians. Our methods, our organization, even some of our beliefs may be different; but we are all striving towards the one goal of a world redeemed in Christ.

William Barclay

02/02/2026

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Join us for these four evenings in 2026. Launch date Friday 13 March @ 7.15pm for refreshments.

25/01/2026

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Many Christians in the West have a fundamental misunderstanding of the very goal of their faith, according to New Testament scholar N T Wright

20/03/2025

"If God were a theory, the study of theology would be the way to understand Him. But God is alive and in need of love and worship. This is why thinking of God is related to our worship. In an analogy of artistic understanding, we sing to Him before we are able to understand Him. We have to love in order to know. Unless we learn how to sing, unless we know how to love, we will never learn to understand Him".
― Abraham Heschel

08/02/2025

Here is a link to an audio file, on the subject of 'Transformation.'

Photo by Pixabay on Pexels.com Here is a message from 2023, unpacking the word ‘metamorpho,’ meaning ‘transformation.’

07/02/2025

Listen to David Cairns speaking on the differences between the flesh and the Spirit.

07/07/2024

"Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction…Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

07/07/2024

https://www.plough.com/en/topics/faith/early-christians/jesus-and-the-future-of-the-earth

Eberhard Arnold tells how the first Christians viewed the end of the age.

03/07/2024

“A church that does not provoke crisis, a gospel that does not disturb, a word of God that does not touch the concrete sin of the society in which it is being proclaimed – what kind of gospel is that?”
Oscar Romero