The 2025 Rehoboth Awayday – Dalesdown 14th June If you weren’t there, you missed a great day of fellowship and helpful thoughts, instructions from the Word, and discussion together! We’re thankful to David Skull joining us from Grace Church Brighton to lead our thoughts.

Session 1 on The Church’s Great Commission was, as Stuart says, about the Good News for failed disciples & a great commission for all disciples.

Three headings:

1 Task – Go & make disciples

2 Helps – the Power of Jesus (all authority); the Presence of Jesus

3 Steps – Go; Baptize (important to baptize in the name of the triune God); Teach

Session 2 touched on Lessons from the Great Commission Noting Jesus’ discernment as seen in Matt 9: 35 – 38, the need for prayer for the spread of the Gospel in our area – prayer walking, for instance; for compassion for the lost people of Horsham, and the determination to go & proclaim.

Session 3 brought us more lessons from Jesus Particularly from Mark ch 1, where the writer jumps straight in with ‘The beginning of the good news about Jesus the Messiah …’ Jesus receives the affirmation of His Father, then straight into the spiritual battle with Satan; we, like the disciples when they were called, soon meet the attempts of the devil to discourage and defeat us, but we have the Lord with us who has called us to follow Him.

I was struck with the thought that in verses 29-34, the whole town came to the door of Peter’s house where his mother in law had been made well, to hear from Jesus and to seek healing. May our witness from Rehoboth be such that people will want to come to find the Saviour.

Truly a blessed day spending those hours together with the Lord.

The weekend continued on the Sunday as David helped us consider the soul winning church in Jerusalem in our Sunday morning service,

Then, following a bumper BBQ, in a short service in the garden, we had the thought of how we can be a soul winning church. Yes, we Rehobothians!

Steve