Ordinary 31

31 October 2021

Bible readings for today

Collect

Holy God,
you call us to love you with all our passion, prayer, intelligence and energy;
you call us to love our neighbor,
you call us to love ourselves.
Draw us closer to you,
that we may reveal your mercy, justice and peace.
Through Jesus Christ our Liberator,
who is alive and reigns with you,
in the unity of the Holy Spirit,
one God, now and for ever.
Amen

The Most Important Commandment (Mark 12:28-34)

Today's story encourages us to think about how we can love the Lord with all of our heart

Gospel Conversations

One of the most familiar passages in the Gospels is when Jesus tells us the "most important" commandments of them all. They're all about love. Simple? Not really! Join David Tombs, Kelvin Wright and Diana Abercrombie as they discuss with Rev Mike Godfrey some of the many sides to these central words of Jesus.

Activities

Colouring in Poster (Lutheran Church)
Colouring in Poster (Flame Creative)

Who is your neighbour?

The greatest commandment is to love God, and the second commandment is to love our neighbour as ourselves. It is so easy to get swept up in our own lives, and to not get to know our neighbours.

Have you heard about Neighbours Day, an initiative to build community where you are?

Can you organise a family friendly missional event in your street? Ideas could include:

a community football match
Christmas bbq
Spring seed swap
Can collection - where you drop off a note saying you're collecting cans for the city mission in each of the letterboxes, and will collect them from their letter box on a certain day - if they want to be involved.
Community picnic