Binbrook Group of Parishes

Service Times July 2008

Binbrook

Ludford

Wold Newton

Swinhope

 Kelstern

Sundays in July - Parish Mass at Binbrook

CONFESSIONS

After any Weekday Service or by appointment.

BAPTISMS, CHURCHINGS, WEDDINGS, & FUNERALS

By arrangement with the Rector.

The Rector's Letter for the current month:

The Rectory, Binbrook  

Dear Friends,

There are people who agonise about becoming Christian, because they are beset by intellectual doubts. They read widely, wrestle with the great truths of the Christian faith and yet still they are not entirely convinced, and cannot really believe.

There are other people who believe all that the Church teaches about God and about life; they pray, they defend the faith in discussions with others but they do not actually become members of the Church by baptism or confirmation. They find that they know it all at a head level, but in their hearts, a real, living faith is lacking.

There are yet other people who fiercely reject the teachings of the Church, who have problems with doctrine and dogma of every kind, and yet, however hard they try, they cannot deny the existence of God.

What do all these people have in common with each other and with us all? It is that their image of God is limited. They cannot adequately comprehend the nature of God. The truth is that no human being can comprehend God. The Christian story is one of growing in the knowledge and love of God.

Our experience of faith is a journey which brings us closer to God, sometimes in leaps and bounds, and sometimes very, very slowly.  We move forward in faith by our experience of life, by what we are taught by other people, and by our own times of prayer and bible reading. Most things, if we have eyes to see, can teach us something more about God and about ourselves. 

If truth is simply a series of doctrinal statements, then faith is just an intellectual exercise and we could well run round in logical circles, never seeming to arrive anywhere. If truth is simply how we feel, then we will not see the significance of our lives and we will merely respond to stimuli.

If our lives however are lived in the conviction that there is a truth of mind and heart and spirit, then we have begun to seek God. When our search for truth becomes a relationship with the God who is truth, then we are saved. When our heart's journey brings us to friendship with the God who is love, then we are saved. When our confusion and doubt brings us to call out for a saviour and recognise the Lord, then we are saved for Father, Son and  Holy Spirit dwell in us, and we dwell in God.

Yours sincerely,

                Father Walker.

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