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As a church community we usually see each other at Sunday or Thursday morning worship, or at the many activities that go on in the buildings each week. This is not possible because of the guidelines about people gathering together during the current crisis but via the website and social media we are still able to share our daily living.
If you are looking at this website as someone who is uncertain during these extremely trying and anxious times please feel free to phone our church office number or Tom our minister. We will get back to you as soon as possible.
Please look at the website particularly the section, “Connect with the congregation” to read how folk are getting through this time. Much of it is just fun so please feel free to enter into it.
Each morning a new “Thought for the Day” will be added to this page just to help you on your way.
If you are looking at this website as someone who is uncertain during these extremely trying and anxious times please feel free to phone our church office number or Tom our minister. We will get back to you as soon as possible.
Please look at the website particularly the section, “Connect with the congregation” to read how folk are getting through this time. Much of it is just fun so please feel free to enter into it.
Each morning a new “Thought for the Day” will be added to this page just to help you on your way.
Thought for the Day: Wednesday 8/4/30
St John 13:21-30
The tension is there- Jesus has been teaching in the Temple precincts, the place is buzzing with stories, rumours and conspiracy theories and he cannot have been impervious to it all.
Judas is favoured at this meal, he had to be, for he was so close that Jesus could whisper in his ear. Try doing that at a dinner. John lets us know Jesus is aware that one of his closest, dearest friends is going to betray him. I don’t think I have ever been betrayed but I imagine it is worse than horrible yet Jesus sends him on his way (almost with a blessing -v.27, “Do quickly what you are going to do”).
John is telling us Jesus was no naïve participant in this drama – he was fully aware of what was going on and where it would lead. It still wasn’t easy for Jesus but it was the way it had to be. John cleverly uses the motif of darkness versus light again by informing us in verse 30, “It was night”. Darkness and light – the threads that run through this entire gospel.
Consider: how have we betrayed Jesus in our living as we have failed to love and live in the light of his life.
The tension is there- Jesus has been teaching in the Temple precincts, the place is buzzing with stories, rumours and conspiracy theories and he cannot have been impervious to it all.
Judas is favoured at this meal, he had to be, for he was so close that Jesus could whisper in his ear. Try doing that at a dinner. John lets us know Jesus is aware that one of his closest, dearest friends is going to betray him. I don’t think I have ever been betrayed but I imagine it is worse than horrible yet Jesus sends him on his way (almost with a blessing -v.27, “Do quickly what you are going to do”).
John is telling us Jesus was no naïve participant in this drama – he was fully aware of what was going on and where it would lead. It still wasn’t easy for Jesus but it was the way it had to be. John cleverly uses the motif of darkness versus light again by informing us in verse 30, “It was night”. Darkness and light – the threads that run through this entire gospel.
Consider: how have we betrayed Jesus in our living as we have failed to love and live in the light of his life.
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Where we are
240 Nithsdale Rd, Pollokshields Glasgow, G41 5AD |
The Minister
Tom Pollock Church Office: 0141 427 1968 Home: 0141 427 2094 SCN. 015155 Our regular office hours are: Tuesdays & Fridays 9am-5pm Thursday 2pm-6pm. |