This paper formed a discussion-starter for a CICC Theology Cafe on 12 June 12.

Vocation at Work

Theology Café is a space for anyone and everyone to come and debate issues of God, life, the universe and everything.

At a time when pop-atheism is all over the media, and yet the numbers of people seeking spiritual truth is at a zenith, what would our world and society look like if a benevolent God really did exist?

Taking place every second Tuesday of the month from 8pm – 10pm at The Gate Arts Centre, Cardiff, Theology Café will be led by experts in varied academic fields, who will help us engage with this question.

Fourth Cafe:

More Work, Less Well-being – Dr Peter Sedgwick

Tuesday, 12 June at 8pm

Dr. Peter Sedgwick will help us to explore the connection between work and personal fulfilment.  To get your mind in gear before you come, download and read the Peter’s paper/handout below.

Come along, grab a drink and join in the conversation!

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EFCW Summer conferences 2012

Issues facing Christians today

The title of John Stott’s book sets the theme for this year’s summer conferences.  Ethical issues, mostly relating to ‘hatching, matching and dispatching’ are constantly grabbing the headlines and, on many of them, we as Christians need to take a considered stand based on a biblical perspective.  We also need to know how to care pastorally for people grappling with such issues at a personal level.  The speakers have experience and expertise in different fields, so the three conferences will each cover different topics.

12^th May

St Mary’s and All Saints Church, CONWY LL32 8LD 

‘Euthanasia – What would Jesus do?’ Derek Munday

An exploration of a growing pastoral issue.

Dr Derek Munday is a retired general practitioner who was involved in the politics and management of health care provision and who led a Christian organisation for Health Care Professionals.  He is a Reader in the Church in Wales.

19^th May

The hall, St Mary’s Church, Malpas NEWPORT NP20 6GQ

‘End of Life care on the Intensive Care unit’   Jeremy Bewley

issues such as organ donation, euthanasia and the ‘right to die’.

‘A Christian approach to palliative care in the hospice’   Nigel Rawlinson

How to share one’s faith with the terminally ill.

‘Christian perspectives at the beginning of life’   Caroline Virgo

Dr Jeremy Bewley has been a Consultant in Intensive Care and Anaesthesia at the Bristol Royal Infirmary since 2001.  He was educated at Monmouth School, where he was confirmed.  He and his family are presently supporting a church graft in Bristol.

Reverend Mr Nigel Rawlinson is Specialty Doctor, Palliative Medicine, at Dorothy House Hospice.  He is also Honorary Consultant Emergency Medicine, University Hospitals Bristol.  He is Director of Student Affairs, University of Bristol.  He is Associate Minister of All Saints Church, Weston, Bath.

Caroline Virgo trained as a Barrister and is now the Director of Hope’s Place, Bristol, a faith-based Christian charity she established in 2005.  It provides support for women and couples with pregnancy related issues, including crisis pregnancy, baby loss and post natal depression.

26^th May

St Teilo’s Church, LLANDEILO, SA19 6EN

‘Sexual  Challenges for the Family and Positive Responses’ Lisa Nolland

‘Kids, Youth Culture and Sex: The Bad News and the Good’ Lisa Nolland

‘Jesus and Sex Ethics’ John Nolland

Dr Lisa Nolland is web consultant for the informative Anglican Mainstream website.  Lisa has a particular writing and research interest in sexuality in contemporary society and especially the challenges this poses for Christians in a fast-changing context.

Rev’d Professor John Nolland, is Tutor in New Testament, Trinity College Bristol and Visiting Professor at the University of Bristol.  John is an Australian with parish experience in the Diocese of Sydney and previous teaching experience in Canada.

Full details of all three conferences can be found on the EFCW website

Dr Derek Munday is a General Medical Practitioner and has considerable experience in local and strategic leadership in the NHS in England and Wales.  He is also a Christian and a lay reader in the Church of England.

As a doctor, you would expect him to know a lot about ill health and approaches to healing.  But  how does this relate to miracles and healing in the life of Jesus, and to the here and now?

Join us at this FREE partnership event run by the Fellowship of Aberystwyth Christian Staff (FACS), entitled:

Jesus then and now – healing and the miraculous

A doctor’s perspective

The event is free, but if you plan to attend, it would help if you could email CICC on info@cicconline.org.uk

The 12.30pm, lunchtime meeting will be held in Room A14 of the Hugh Owen Building, Penglais, Aberystwyth University, SY23 3BY.  The map to the venue is downloadable below.

There is visitors’ parking on the campus.  Once you’ve turned on to the campus, visitor parking is clearly signposted.  Just follow the road until it ends in a pay and display car park. You’ll pass the porters’ lodge on the left, then the Hugh Owen building on the left and some stairs leading up to the Arts Centre, then a car park for staff on the left.  Follow the road around and up and you’ll see the visitors’ car park.

Developing a Hebrew-Biblical worldview, fresh skills in personal Bible study, and enjoying the inspired ‘woven’ nature of the literature – that is what this second CICC Cafe series on Biblefresh Insights is all about.

This page holds the papers used in the CICC Cafe series.

Recognising that ‘the letter kills’ but believing that ‘the Spirit gives life’ (2 Cor 3.6), the Cafe opened up a new window onto the spiritual, prophetic voice woven into the scriptures.

The Cafe series began with five weeks looking at the text of Genesis 1, looking at the detailed analysis of the literal text, and the revelation within the ‘woven’ structure.

We then spent a week practicing the skill of text analysis, but in the Gospels text from Mark 4 on the Parable of The Sower.  The literal text and the analysed text is given below, to show how we set it out.

The Creation – Literal Text Genesis 1.1-13

The Creation – Literal Text Genesis 1.14-31

The Creation – Literal Text Genesis 1.26-2.3

The Creation Weave Text (Genesis Unit I: 1.1-2.3)

The Creation Weave – Graphic Sumary

Division & Connection Text (Genesis Unit II: 2.4-4.26)

New Testament examples:

The Parable of the Sower/Soils - Literal Text

The Parable of the Sower/Soils - Analysed Text

How can churches become communities that envision, equip and support their people to be fruitful on their daily frontlines – wherever those are?

How can we create a missional people? Jesus called his disciples to be makers of disciples and yet, with all the pressures of local church, the core task of moving people beyond conversion to becoming confident fruitful followers of Jesus in all of life – work, home, leisure, church – can be a daunting one.

Throughout this year, Neil Hudson of the London Institute for Contemporary Christianity (LICC) is leading training workshops across the UK for church leaders, leadership teams and all those who want to create whole-life disciplemaking churches. He’ll be exploring the biblical vision, the practical principles and the process he’s been learning in his work with churches of different sizes and denominations across the nation, and offering a clear framework for moving forward.

What are the implications for leaders and disciple-makers who want to create a missional disciple-making community? How can people grown in confidence to make a difference on their frontlines? What helps? What hinders? What keeps it going? What resources can help? And how can you discern the right first steps to take in your own particular context?

Neil draws on the LICC’s eight years of reflection and on-the-ground work with local churches, not only to identify the key theological and methodological barriers to whole-life mission but to offer a workable, sustainable framework for creating a disciple-making community.  The key to the approach is new eyes and so, as they have found, it can be begun without new programmes, new premises, new resources… Come and explore

Naturally, individuals are more than welcome, but, given the nature and vital importance of the topic, it’s often more helpful if leaders can come with others from the same church.

The cost of the evening double-session is £6.  Please register by selecting the venue and quantity below.

Once you have selected the venue and quantity, you can then move on to register for other events or Cafes, or to download resources, from elsewhere on the site, or to move directly to checkout, by selecting the ‘Go to Checkout’ button in the ‘Shopping Cart’ section at top right.

(NB.  CICC policy is for events to be accessible to all.  If, for some reason, you are unable to afford the price of any event, but would want to attend, please email us at info@cicconline.org.uk , and we will register you manually).

Cardiff – Tuesday, 2 October at 7.30pm

Glenwood Church [ map ]

Circle Way West, Llanedeyrn, Cardiff, CF23 6UW

Theology Café is a space for anyone and everyone to come and debate issues of God, life, the universe and everything.

At a time when pop-atheism is all over the media, and yet the numbers of people seeking spiritual truth is at a zenith, what would our world and society look like if a benevolent God really did exist?

Taking place every second Tuesday of the month from 8pm – 10pm at The Gate Arts Centre, Cardiff, Theology Café will be led by experts in varied academic fields, who will help us engage with this question.

Third Cafe:

How green is God? - Dr John Weaver

Tuesday, 8 May at 8pm

At a time when the authorities are claiming parts of Britain are both in the middle of a drought AND flooding, the dreaded phrase ‘global warming’ is once again being uttered in many a subdued and whispered conversation.

Does this subject warrant theological reflection?

How bothered is The Divine that human beings are making a mess of the world that He once declared as ‘good’?

Just what are God’s green credentials?

Come along, grab a drink and join in the conversation!

To help fund the Cafe costs, make your donation below, or at the session.

If you would like to support CICC regularly, you can become a partner.

If you can’t LOG ON, download an APP for it, use it as a status update or sync it with your tablet…. Is it still relevant in 2012?  In today’s digital world, what are some of the amazing opportunities and challenges for us as individuals and churches to STAY CONNECTED with society?

What impact is the digital world having on us, where is it going next and will it ever stop?  This session should help you to reflect, re-charge and re-assess the impact social media and digital technology are having on us, our families, and society as a whole.  It will also seek to de-code and present some of the new mission platforms available to us.

This is not just for techies and will be communicated in a language you understand. Parents, Pastors, Teachers, Teenagers – and everyone else – welcome!

Presented by Dave Newton, Director of Outreach, and Richard Bromley, Director of Local Ministries, Youth for Christ.

Colwyn Bay – Tues, 13 March at 7.30pm

Princes Drive Baptist Church [ map ]

Princes Drive, Colwyn Bay, Colwyn, LL29 8LA

Swansea – Wed, 14 March at 7.30pm

Waterfront Community Church [ map ]

Langdon Rd, Swansea, SA1 8QY

Cardiff – Thurs, 15 March at 7.30pm

Rhiwbina Baptist Church [ map ]

Lon Ucha, Rhiwbina, Cardiff, CF14 6HL

Listen to this talk from Get a Grip, a conference to help church ministers and Bible teachers in every context to understand better and to teach confidently, the more controversial passages of the Bible.  The conference was held in Cardiff on 3 November 2011.

Click here to listen for free. 

The accompanying PowerPoint slides are also available.

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