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We completed a series of NOOMA presentations in March 2008. We also used some of the NOOMA videos in our house-groups following the series. We have no more presentations planned at the moment but we expect to have some more NOOMA sessions at a later date so watch this space! The format consists of short videos which touch on issues that we care about & give us opportunities to think about them & talk about them. They are entertaining yet thought provoking, down-to-earth yet challenging. Each one is stand-alone. Come along anytime to find out what it is about! Titles we have used so far are listed below .....
As a taster - here area couple of extracts from NOOMA ...
"We want to know why we are here. If our lives really matter. How our religion is relevant to this life. Today. We want to understand what significance this minute, hour, week, month, and year has to our lives. To our world. We need a God who cares about this life, in this world, right now. We want to understand why everything we think, everything we say, and everything we do matters. We don’t want to just sit back and wait for something to happen or someday to come. We want to know if all the choices we make now will shape our world and lives for eternity. Because we want our lives to have meaning today, and our lives today to have meaning forever."
Some of the central claims of the Christian faith are the source of many discussions and heated debates. But are we always debating the right things? Maybe some of our discussions would change significantly if we had more insight into the actual circumstances that surrounded the first people of the Christian movement – if we had a better understanding of the things they did in the context of the world they lived in. Maybe some of the claims of the Christian faith that we typically perceive to be unique aren’t really that special at all. And at the same time maybe we don’t always put enough emphasis on the things that truly should matter in our lives.
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