Welcome to

North Beach Baptist Church We are really glad you are reading this and hope you tune into our Virtual Service on

Sunday, or any day, through our website www.nbbc.org.au or through the link sent with

on Saturday Night. We continue in our series in Romans with Q & A opportunity for you.

Sunday 21st June 2020

Sunday Service:

Leader: Alan Raven

Speaker: Grant Hendry

Passage: Romans 14:13—23

Title: Transformed Lives—

Life with Peace

NBKids Spot: Hayley Pearce

Update re Covid-19 Restrictions

North Beach Baptist Church is still seeking to respond wisely to Covid-19,

carefully maximizing opportunities to remain connected to each other

and to keep growing as a disciple of Jesus.

We believe that meeting together matters a lot and we are being sensible

in how we meet—for everyone's sake. As directed by the Govt. the church

is now open to groups of 100 people with 2sqm space per person. Every

person who enters the building is asked to sign in and out on the Contact

List, sanitize your hands and keep 1.5m social distance from others.

If you are not well please do not come.

Our Church

Church services will remain Virtual

Services as the limit of people is

not high enough yet for us to bring

services back.

We are encouraging all Growth

Groups to meet together in one or

two homes and return to ‘doing

church’ together.

If you are not part of a Growth

Group or your group isn't meeting

for church, you are very welcome

to join with Alan Raven’s Growth

Group at the church at 8.30am or

with Grant Hendry’s & Merv

Hodge’s Growth Groups at

10.30am or Brad Vigus’s Growth

Group at 6pm watching the Virtual

Service together.

Children will remain with their

families for the service. There will

be Kids Activity Packs at the back

of the Auditorium for kids to col-

lect when they arrive at church.

The creche will remain closed.

Romans Sermon

Series Q & A

In this sermon series on Romans we

are providing Q & A opportunities.

Please ask any questions by texting

them to 0468 361 777 and you will

be able to watch Grant answer them

on the link in E-waves on Wednes-

day.

Open for Groups Our church is open for 100 people

now and we would love any groups

that have struggled to meet over the

last few months, to use the building.

Several Growth Groups are using the

building, Tuesday Morning prayer @

8am, Ignite Youth on Friday night,

Sea Stars Playgroup on Thursday

mornings and there is still room if

your group would like to meet at the

church too.

Call the office on 9448 7018

Service Theme Passage Preacher

Virtual Service Transformed Lives -

Life with Unity

Romans 15:1—13 Brad Vigus

Next Sunday 28th June Preaching Program

Tansen Hospital Today we watch a video on the work

of Tamsen Hospital in Nepal.

Please be in prayer for the workers

as they minister under extreme cir-

cumstances and for those they min-

ister to. May the love of Jesus reach

out in a very tangible way.

Wayne & Tanuja worked at this hos-

pital and Wayne will be ‘Paddling for

Poverty’ in the Avon Descent. All

Donations sent through Interserve

will go directly to the hospital and

are tax deductible.

interserve.org.au/give/donate

Or

wt@martins.id.au

Myanmar Prayer Mtg We will be linking up with London,

Thailand and Myanmar to meet and

pray for the new OMF Leaders An-

drew & Shona Goodman and Deputy

Neel Roberts plus Tilly Clay. There

will be the opportunity to ask ques-

tions together with an update on the

current situation in Myanmar and

prayer requests. For further infor-

mation /zoom link ring Glyn With-

ers on 0417958973

Kids Hope Mentor

Training Mentor Training at the church on

Saturday morning 27th June.

Mission Team Meeting

The next Mission team meeting is

planned for next Sunday 21st June,

at the church from 4—5.30pm.

Bread Have you been missing the bread?

Bread that was available on Monday

nights at Brigades and on the week-

end is now available for collection

from Frances Hearn’s home, 17 Mer-

lin Drive, Carine.

Please ring 9243 6260 for which

days the bread will be available

Electronic Giving

We encourage all regulars to

cheerfully, generously and

sacrificially give to God, through

NBBC. There are two ways this can

be done: On-line details:

BSB 704 922

ACC 100012989

or visit the church during office

hours.

Lives transformed – Life with Peace Romans 14:13-23

After teaching on ‘disputable matters’ in Romans 14:1-12, Paul presents the related, super important ‘stumbling block principle’.

We are not free to trip up other believers (14:13–15).

We are either stepping stones or stumbling blocks.

We are to lay down our liberty to build up others, rather than walking around quoting proof texts to justify what we believe and do, know-ing that others are being hurt by our words and actions.

We are not to harm our testimony by what we are free to do (14:16–18).

Often the world has a wrong perspective on what it means to be a Christian, but many times our liberty can harm our ability to tell the world about Jesus.

Build up believers (14:19–23).

When we play fast and loose with another person’s conscience and en-courage them to act against their conscience, we are nurturing a hardness of heart and faithlessness that can, if it is not checked with repentance, lead to ruin and destruction for us all.

Two ‘diagnostic questions’

(questions that help us identify and engage with what is happening in our hearts).

Post Covid, will you resume church attendance in a way that helps or hinders the faith of others?

You accurately know that going to church doesn’t make you a Chris-tian. From that position of theological correctness, will you enter into a pattern of spasmodic church attendance and if so, will your example teach weaker Christians and those on a journey toward faith in Christ, that church attendance is a great idea only when there is nothing else to do?

Do you have a critical spirit?

When our pattern is to tear down and not build up, even when we are technically correct in what we criticise, is that example terrible for our own spiritual health and will the weaker believers that we dis-courage, turn to the pathway of destruction, as a result of our criti-cisms?

May we get in so close to those around us with a

weaker faith, that we lovingly do everything we possibly

can except completely agree with them if they’re wrong!

Let’s prayerfully, steadily and earnestly grow as people who build up others in Christ, rather than cause them to stumble.

Text questions on this passage or anything to do with

faith to 0468 361 777 by Tuesday 1.00pm, for a video

answer linked in E-Waves on Wednesday

For Love & Sympathy to:

• Liz Kirby on the passing of her father in Sth Africa early Monday morning

Congratulations to:

• Kevin Dinsdale as he celebrates a Special Birthday on Tuesday 23rd June

• Ed Power who will celebrate his Special Birthday on Wednesday 24th June

Praise and Prayer for:

• Our Prime Minister and Premier as they continue to lead us with God given wis-dom and vision during this time of lifting of our restrictions

• John Barton and others who had surgery this week, for complete recovery

• Good news for Frank Li (10) as he is now allowed to go to the park. Still not mix-ing with people. Please pray for him to desire to eat. He is now at 51 days of 100 in this stage of recovery

• Our students still doing mid year exams

• The Cowan family as they fly to Darwin on Thursday and then quarantine

• The Patterson family coming back to Aust. on leave this week and then quarantine

• Community Care Opportunities, for the people they help with the love of Jesus

• Those among us with serious illnesses, our elderly or those immunocompromised

• The countries still in the thick of COVID, especially the third world countries like Nepal, for their Govt and for the Christians trying to shine Jesus in all situations

• Ken Elliott to know the love, joy & peace of Jesus in his captivity

• Serenity who is living and serving in Indonesia

• Our Pastors, Elders & Deacons as they lead & teach us with Godly wisdom

Please pray for our staff:

Grant Hendry 0468 361 777

Alan Raven 0430 551 640

Brad Vigus 0438 172 882

Anton Hallam (interim) 0404 770 794

Merv Hodge 0438 408 040

Bruce Miller 0427 608 716

Hayley Pearce 0426 606 402

Candice Ballington 0431 724 273

Trainees: Michael Davis

Biblical Counselling Justin van der Spuy 0406 022 256

Comments for encouragement or help? ‘feedback@nbbc.org.au’.

Kaye Tranter 0417 986 136

Michelle Meyer 0410 567 964