Advent is a strange time in the church’s year. On the one hand, it’s about preparing for Jesus, God-with-us, to suddenly enter the world. On the other it looks towards the fulfilment of God’s plans for the whole creation.

This Tuesday we will gather to begin our Advent journey together.

Every Tuesday evening we gather together to talk about what it means to be Jesus’ disciples in contemporary Melbourne. Sometimes that’s a Bible Study, sometimes something more thematic, and sometimes something more reflective.

We eat together at 7pm - bring your own dinner, or buy something from one of the many takeaway options on the street - and the “serious bit” begins at 8. We’re done by 9:15

Picture: I know it’s a bit of a stereotypical “white Jesus”, but I have a soft spot for the Pre-Raphaelites.

Burne-Jones, Edward Coley, 1833-1898. Christ in Glory, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=56025 [retrieved November 28, 2024]. Original source: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Museum_-_Christ_in_Glory_(Salvator_Mundi)_-_Sir_Edward_Coley_Burne-Jones_-_overall.jpg.,