This page is where You get to answer questions posted.
These questions will remain for one week then our resident minister Pastor Michael Cummins will give his view.

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Answer to last weeks question

"Why do we, the English, only feel patriotic when the World Cup or the Ashes come around"?

Is it because the only way we can feel happy with our identity is by defeating the Germans at soccer or the Australians at cricket? We seem to have lost our way! No longer a colonial power with a vast empire, but part of a European union which many of us struggle to find common ground with, a European union that does little to promote the Christian faith or Biblical morality.
We English wrongly expected so much from our soccer team at the World cup, overpaid young men who have little in common with the financial or moral pressures of everyday family life; two of Chelsea/England stars were both caught up in sex scandals prior to the World cup, yet that was overlooked as the nation waited in anticipation that the old foe Germany would be put to the sword.
Now that all the flags and banners have come down, a nation has to lick its wounds get on with life and enbrace the real world. Sadly our footballer's, despite their poor showing, will return to their clubs and their £100,000 per week salaries and all the perks that go with that lifestyle.
What positive thing can we the English people say about our nation that is not sport related? Well, I preached in a Baptist church in Clapton, East London recently and saw a wood varnished remembrance board by the church entrance highlighting men and women who left that church during the last century and travelled to places like Burma, China, and India to spread the Gospel and were all martyred. This touched me greatly as the Pastor told me that one name remembered still had relatives living outside London and they still visited the place where their martyred ancestor worshipped. We now see in our great cities people who have ancestral links to countries that were once part of the old British empire, now of course the commonwealth who hold dear the Christian faith which was taught them by English or English speaking Christians who helped them come to that life changing decision to accept Jesus as Lord and Saviour.
President J.F.K. once said to a German audience in 1960 during a state visit to the then divided state of West Germany "Ask not what your country can do for you, but ask what you can do for your country"
perhaps those of us who hold the Gospel dear to us and have influence and the ability to reach others might do what we can to help this country and the rest of Britain rediscover the joy and the truth of the Gospel, a Gospel that was once taught in the poorest and the toughest areas of Britain despite poverty and hardship. Then we might be able to sing with true conviction that patriotic hymn sung at sporting events; JERUSALEM. the last verse ends by declaring "I SHALL NOT CEASE FROM MENTAL FIGHT,NOR SHALL MY SWORD STILL IN MY HAND, TILL WE HAVE BUILT JERUSALEM IN ENGLANDS GREEN AND PLEASANT LAND"
Only a nation declaring and serving the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords can feel right within itself finally at peace with its past awaiting a glorious future,watching the Biblical signs so that we can as a nation wait on the return of our Lord Jesus, not waiting in vain for the next World cup.

Amen

Love Michael

18/07/2010"Should the previous Labour government apologise to the British people for the state of the economy,and is that Biblical"?

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