Reflection for the month - June

On May 29th Christians around the world celebrated the Ascension of Jesus. ‘He ascended into Heaven’ rejoining His Father, having completed His physical time with his disciples on earth, but with the promise that He would always be with them, ‘to the end of the world’.  His spiritual presence promised then is with us today, and we, as His followers, have the clear instruction, the Great Commission given to the apostles, to ‘make disciples of all nations and to teach them to observe everything I have commanded you’.  

That Commission with the guidance of the Holy Spirit has been, is and ever will be the mission of the Church, and we as members of Christ’s Church are charged to do all that we can to fulfil that mission in our own lives and by supporting others who stand for us in places around the world that we can never reach. Of course we are not all evangelists, at least not in the formal sense, but every one of us in some way has received gifts which, if we allow, God will use to help us play a part in fulfilling that Great Commission. We have the comfort and the confidence to know that Jesus is always with us.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                         David Peacock