BH Bulletin - Monday 28 June 2021

Thought for the Day by Alex Forrest
​(Voluntary Staff Worker)

19 Do you not know that your bodies are temples of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; 20 you were bought at a price. Therefore honour God with your bodies.
1 Cor 6:19-20
I’ve been unable to attend the sessions with Nick McQuaker looking at human sexuality live due to leading at Rooted on Thursday’s but I’ve massively enjoyed catching up through the YouTube links. I’ve been pondering on these verses in reflection to what Nick’s been saying and, in some ways, I think if we all believed what this verse said; how many of the problems we’ve encountered with the world’s views on sexuality would be resolved?
If we all realised that our bodies do not belong to ourselves, but are treasured gifts from God, then we wouldn’t be deciding that sex, marriage and gender are all things that we are in charge of defining. We would instead honour God with the gifts that we’ve been given. In our constant quest for self-identity and taking pride in who we are, how mind-blowing is it to hear that we “do not belong to ourselves”. How would our attitudes and behaviour change knowing in our hearts that everything we have and are is a gift from God and not ours to do with as we please.

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Reminder Ben's Priesting service today

Today the Bishop of Lewes is coming to Bishop Hannington for a service of ordination to the priesthood for Ben and two others (From Hailsham and Angmering).  The service will be live streamed on the BH YouTube channel.

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