Chaplains Chat

I am sure we can often reflect on major events in our lives that have profound and deep implications on us as a result. It might be a medical diagnosis that involves a great change in lifestyle or a fractured relationship that seemingly changes everything. Perhaps it was an unexpected conversation with someone that changed the direction of our working lives. A former Shore Senior Prefect told our Year 11 boys on Step Up Camp one year that a Year 9 video, at School was the catalyst for him later working with First Nations people after he had left school.  

We have been looking through the book of Acts this term in Chapel. Last week we saw Saul on the road to Damascus. Jesus appeared to Saul, and as a result, instead of continuing to persecute Christians, Saul became one of the dominant figures in the spread of Christianity. It is fair to say that this was a major event in his life! Anna Hogg, in her writing entitled The Relevance of a Christian Philosophy of Education describes how the life, death and resurrection of Jesus ‘has implications for the value of man, for the change to be effected in him is something which only God could do, and which, moreover, He was willing to do.’ The wonderful news of Jesus is for all people, regardless of our background, and it reminds us of the great change God can bring about in our lives as we seek to follow him.  

Rev A Benn
Chaplain