I am so pleased to invite the congregation of St Mary’s Braughing and others who wish to join us to share in one of the most important and distinctive services within our Methodist tradition – the Covenant Service – at the Chapel on the morning of 18 January 2009 at 11.00am. Our quarterly united services are something that I greatly value and I am looking forward to sharing in our annual Covenant Service with you all.
For those of you unfamiliar with the service, you may be interested to know of its origins. As you might expect the service goes back to John Wesley himself. Drawing on the Puritan tradition and the works of Joseph and Richard Alleine, Wesley devised a service in which Christians would embrace the challenges and joys of discipleship whilst knowing themselves loved and held in God’s faithful care. The Biblical notion of ‘covenant’, so central to both Old and New Testaments, provided the framework in which an understanding of our life together under God could be worked out in worship, care and service.
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