Southern Africa Discipleship Conference
Joburg Church of Christ • October 7, 2018
For the first time outside of Johannesburg
We are very excited to announce the 2019 Southern Africa Discipleship Conference. It will be held at the Cresta Conference Centre in the suburbs of Harare. Disciples from across the churches in Southern Africa will be converging to hear guest speakers Scott & Theresa Kirkpatrick, from Columbia South Carolina and Mike & Anne-Brigitte Taliaferro from San Antonio Texas.
Registration and accommodation details will be available at all the Joburg church regions soon.
See you all there.
Because Jesus reconciled us to God through the cross, we are called to pursue reconciliation with God, one another, and the world around us.
Jesus reconciles us to the Father and teaches us to extend his grace, helping us forgive one another, heal relationships, and walk together in peace.
The physics of the pendulum Picture an old grandfather clock in a quiet hallway. Its long brass pendulum swings steadily: tick, tock, tick, tock. Now give that pendulum a hard shove to the right. It does not simply glide back to the center and stop. It races right past the middle and sways just as far to the left. Left to its own momentum, a pendulum never rests at either extreme; it finds peace only when it hangs still at the center, held by gravity and its fixed point. The church behaves in much the same way. Push her too far toward one side of a truth and she does not gently settle into balance, she swings. Often for a whole generation toward the opposite error, and then back again, wounding people at both ends of the arc. And here is the crucial thing the clock teaches us: the pendulum comes to rest not by being frozen in place, but by being held. Balance is not the absence of force; it is the fixed point that keeps opposing pulls in tension so that the weight can finally hang still.