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1st Sunday in the month 4pm Tea Time Church 2nd Sunday in the month 10.30am Holy Communion 3rd Sunday in the month Minsterley Praise with Minsterley Methodists ChurchThis service is hosted alternate months and start times10am at Minsterley Methodist Church (Feb, April, June, Aug, Oct, Dec)10.30am at Holly Trinity Minsterley (Jan, Mar, May, July, Sept & Nov)4th Sunday in the month 10.30am Holy Communion5th Sunday in the month 10.30am Group Communion Service around the churches of our Benefice
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Dear FriendsTo celebrate my birthday last week, I went to see The Odyssey, a three-hour epic based on Homer’s work. Someone asked me whether the film was faithful to the poem – a difficult question to answer, because it’s not a literal rendering of the story but I felt the embellishments were within the spirit of the original piece, but that’s very much a subjective judgement. In the same way, at the Tea-time service at Minsterley last Sunday, I showed an excerpt from The Chosen, the modern television series retelling the story of the Gospel. The excerpt was a rendering of the Feeding of the 5,000, very well done I thought – although again that is a subjective opinion. Some would say that the Bible is the Word of God and therefore should not be messed with in any degree. While I agree that it is the Word of God, I believe some liberties may be taken in order to communicate its central truths. After all, Jesus himself told stories more than once, apparently altering details to suit his audience. Greg
