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Welcome to our new website!

On behalf of Wesley Road Chapel we offer you a warm welcome.

Perhaps you are curious about what goes on in this building.

Maybe you are looking for friendship and a place to belong.

It could be that you would like someone to pray for you.

You may be here because you are part of one of the groups which use the building or because you are here for a wedding or baptism or funeral.

Whatever the reason we are glad you are here and would like to offer you some information about what goes on here.

Please do not hesitate to pick up a phone and find out more.

Every blessing

Rev Paul Allen and Rev Susan Smith

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MINISTER’S LETTER

July 2009

Dear Friends,

 

When I was asked to think about ‘love’ for the July messenger I found the phrase from an old Beetles song going round in my mind.   “All you need is love.”    It seems to bring back memories of flower power, psychedelic clothing and student demonstrations.   In reality I suspect the song was a reaction to the Vietnam War.   All you need is love, is that all rather naïve?   Since it was written we have been in the Falklands conflict, the Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq.   There is surely a message in “All you need is love.”

From a Christian point of view I think of the gathering of discipleship in the words, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind and strength and your neighbour as yourself.”  Far from being naïve this is a world changing way of life.   It changes how we relate to God and how we relate to one another.   It can change how communities are and how nations are.   This is because love is not only about being kind and gentle, love is also about the strength of people to relate to one another in new ways.   In that way to work for love can be to work for justice.

 

“All you need is love” can be the memories of a song or a great statement of faith.    The Bible teaches that at the heart of all things is God and that the heart of God is love.   As we try to live by love, a little bit of the world is changed and God is found within it.

 

Paul

 


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Telephone: 0113 279 4816
 
Postal address: Wesley Road Chapel, Armley, Leeds
 
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