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Welcome to our traditional website for the

Three Valleys Team Ministry

 

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A new website is being created.

Please follow the link www.threevalleysteam.org.uk 

There are lots of new ideas, including "Word for the Week", a text and commentary to help each week. 

 

Please explore the new site (which will be run in parallel with this one for the moment)

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please send feedback using the contact details for the Reverend George Moody on either website.

 

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 There are some very odd ideas about what going to church is about. These ideas are not just held by non-church goers but by many people. Let me share with you a few of them.

 

People go to church to earn a place in heaven – They won’t.

 

People go to church because they think they are better than other people – They don’t and they aren’t.

 

People want to be entertained – While its nice to enjoy what you do. That’s not what church is for.

 

To help people feel connected with the past – Partly right but generally a distortion of the Christian faith.

 

In Regency times people went to Church to meet people of the opposite sex. Not quite what the Church Fathers had in mind I’m sure!!

 

I’ve heard it said that people who go to church are hypocrites because they claim to be better than everyone else when in fact they can be just as bad as everyone else.  Actually most people who come to church recognise that they do things wrong and don’t pretend otherwise -that is why they are there.

 

Jesus did not invent going to collective worship. The Jews of his day had a well-established routine of meeting regularly together to hear the Scripture read and to say prayers. No, Jesus took what was already established and commanded us to continue it. What he did was to add to meeting together the breaking of bread and sharing of wine as well as continuing to, pray for each other and hear the scriptures read 

 

You might be interested to know that our word worship derives from the anglo saxon word Weorthscipe which means to honour or to give honour. So worship in church is literally to honour God. We are not doing it for ourselves but for God and we particularly honour God for what happened at Easter.

 

 

HAPPY EASTER

 

Yours

 

Tony Gilbert

Team Rector

 

 

 I hope that you will find plenty of useful

 and interesting information in here. 

    

 

 

The Reverend Tony Gilbert

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Tony with his wife Nicola