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Wholly Following Christ - The Spirit-empowered life pt 1 (Aaron Hardy: Te Hau Ora and a Spirit-empowered life)

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us as we begin our month-long exploration of the first facet, “the Spirit-empowered life”.

Guest speaker Aaron Hardy kicks off this facet of the series, firstly prophesying a few words, and then sharing on life with Te Hau Ora / the Holy Spirit.

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Wholly Following Christ - pt 2 ("Come, follow me")

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us for this second part of introducing the series, where Alisha Wiseman explores who it is we are following and the importance of Jesus as our answer.

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Wholly Following Christ - pt 1 (From segmented to whole)

Wholly Following Christ is a series exploring a beautiful and balanced vision of the Christian life. Join us for this first part where Dan Sheed introduces the holistic life of Jesus and his invitation to us all to leave our segmented existence and move towards wholeness.

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Heart Talks - Aiming for the Future

Heart Talks is a short season of talks sharing what is most precious to us for the journey ahead. In this talk, Dan explores time, the Bible and the pastoral call of the New Testament to aim for the future work of God that has been started in Christ.

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Heart Talks - Returning to the Way of Jesus

Heart Talks is a short season of talks sharing what is most precious to us for the journey ahead. In this talk, Dan shares the need for us to not just centre on Jesus, but to return to his way amongst so many other ways.

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Heart Talks - Redeeming Our Stories

Heart Talks is a short season of talks sharing what is most precious to us for the journey ahead. In this talk, Alisha reflects on the story of Hagar, and how God wants to ask us the same questions of where we have been and where we are going.

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Heart Talks - Centred on Jesus

Heart Talks is a short season of talks sharing what is most precious to us for the journey ahead. In this talk, Dan shares how our name “Central Vineyard” speaks of our desire to be Jesus-centred people and what that means.

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Easter series - God, in the chaos: pt 4 (Resurrection in the chaos)

This Easter, we are looking at the answers that Christ’s passion has for us in our own current chaos – the things in us and around us that aren’t as they should be – and how the events of Easter deliver redemption and renewal to us all. Dan finishes the series by looking at how the RIsen Christ invites us to participate in renewal.

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Easter series - God, in the chaos: pt 3 (The Prince of Peace)

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This Easter, we are looking at the answers that Christ’s passion has for us in our own current chaos – the things in us and around us that aren’t as they should be – and how the events of Easter deliver redemption and renewal to us all. Vivek continues the series by looking at how the Christ of Easter is the Prince of Peace.

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Easter series - God, in the chaos: pt 2 (The suffering servant)

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This Easter, we are looking at the answers that Christ’s passion has for us in our own current chaos – the things in us and around us that aren’t as they should be – and how the events of Easter deliver redemption and renewal to us all. Dan starts the series by looking at how the crucified Christ is the suffering servant.

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Easter series - God, in the chaos: pt 1 (Behold the victorious lamb)

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This Easter, we are looking at the answers that Christ’s passion has for us in our own current chaos – the things in us and around us that aren’t as they should be – and how the events of Easter deliver redemption and renewal to us all. Dan starts the series by looking at how the crucified Christ is the victorious lamb.

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Community: finale (Stories of community)

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As we begin 2022 and continue to lean into God’s reordering work in our lives we want to start the year with a fresh exploration of life in Jesus’ vision of Christian community. In this finale part, Dylan Jones (who is usually behind the camera) sits down with three Circle leaders to have a great conversation about community and share their stories of practicing life as an alternative family together.

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Community: pt 4 (From spectating to participating)

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As we begin 2022 and continue to lean into God’s reordering work in our lives we want to start the year with a fresh exploration of life in Jesus’ vision of Christian community. In this fourth part Dan teaches on how we must leave the anonymity of the crowd and intentionally pursue participation in deeper community.

Audio Epistle credits

Written and read by Dan Sheed
Produced and mixed by Vivek Gabriel

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Community: pt 3 (Barriers to community)

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(Note, due to Omicron isolation we were unable to produce a video version this week)

As we begin 2022 and continue to lean into God’s reordering work in our lives we want to start the year with a fresh exploration of life in Jesus’ vision of Christian community. In this third part Alisha teaches on two key barriers to community: we undervalue it and we idealise it.

Audio Epistle credits

Written and read by Alisha Wiseman
Produced and mixed by Vivek Gabriel

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Community: pt 2 (Resiliently building life together)

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As we begin 2022 and continue to lean into God’s reordering work in our lives we want to start the year with a fresh exploration of life in Jesus’ vision of Christian community. In this second part Dan teaches on how in a cultural stream of autonomy, why we must resiliently build life together and what it takes to do so.

Audio Epistle credits

Written and read by Dan Sheed
Produced and mixed by Vivek Gabriel

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Community: pt 1 (What is Jesus' vision of community?)

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As we begin 2022 and continue to lean into God’s reordering work in our lives we want to start the year with a fresh exploration of life in Jesus’ vision of Christian community. In this first part Dan asks what is Jesus' vision of community? Simply: an alternative family.

Audio Epistle credits

Written and read by Dan Sheed
Produced and mixed by Vivek Gabriel

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Sunday Epistle: Let us pray

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For these long weekend summer Sundays our Sunday Epistles are looking at the words of Lamentations 3:40 which says; “Let’s take a good look at the way we're living and reorder our lives under God." Join us this week for Dan’s closing thoughts entitled “Let us pray."

Audio Epistle credits

Written and read by Dan Sheed
Produced and mixed by Vivek Gabriel

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Sunday Epistle: Let us prioritise

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For these long weekend summer Sundays our Sunday Epistles are looking at the words of Lamentations 3:40 which says; “Let’s take a good look at the way we're living and reorder our lives under God." Join us this week for Alisha's opening thoughts for the year entitled “Let us prioritise."

Audio Epistle credits

Written and read by Alisha WIseman
Produced and mixed by Vivek Gabriel

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