Ministry

Last weekend I decided to check out a new church in my area as I have just moved house and was hoping to find a local congregation. 

I walked in a little late and even though the pastor was speaking at the time, he gave me a friendly wave and I instantly felt welcome. 

Turns out I knew this pastor from my teenage years and during the next hymn, he sat beside me and asked if I would be happy to read the next bible verse. I thought it was a strange request given that I had never been there before, but I am no stranger to being up the front in church, so I agreed. The pastor then introduced me to his congregation telling them that it was only appropriate that I read the verse from Genesis on Adam and Eve because my name is Eve and my husbands name is… Adam! What an intro to a new church!

The story from Genesis that I read out was exactly what we had looked at in chapel the previous week. As our theme this year is Restoration, we looked at the idea that Adam and Eve were in a perfect world and in perfect relationship with God, but they ate fruit from the tree that God had specifically asked them not to eat, which brought sin into the world and separated humanity from God.

Thankfully this all changed when Jesus came into the world, died on the cross, defeated death and restored us back to God. Something that was perfect was broken and Jesus came to save and restore.

We are not perfect. We make mistakes and our wrong choices can weigh us down, but we have the gift of Jesus who offers forgiveness for those mistakes and can take the weight of those burdens from us.

Romans 3:23-24 "for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and all are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.”

Eve Ormsby

Youth Worker