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  Christ Church Blairgowrie welcomes new pastor, Reverend Dave West

Dave West joins Christ Church Blairgowrie as pastor from 1 February 2010. Dave has been in full time ministry from 1990. He has a dynamic vision, and his passion is to see the gospel being understood as relevant in the South African context.

He has been involved with various ministries which represent the demographics and various income groups of South Africa. He has also lead student churches, and ministered to children and the homeless.

Prior to joining CCB, Dave was the pastor at Melville Union Church which he founded in 1994. Dave believes that churches have a responsibility to focus externally to fulfil its mission in the world.

In his day to day pastoring, he works hard to emulate the style of friendship evangelism that brought him to accept Christ in his early twenties. He is married to Liesl who is a medical doctor, and they have two children Robyn and Jonathan. Dave is a family man, who loves to cook, enjoys wildlife and to play golf.

A Plot of Free Grace

“…the mystery of godliness is great: God appeared in a body…” 1 Timothy 3:16

In the creation, man was made in God’s image; in the incarnation God was made in man’s image… Why was Jesus made flesh?

1. The causa prima, and impulsive cause, was free grace. It was love in God the Father to send Christ, and love in Christ that He came to be incarnate. Love was the intrinsic motive. Christ is God-man, because He is a lover of man….Christ’s taking flesh was a plot of free grace, and a pure design of love. Christ incarnate is nothing but love covered in flesh.
2. Christ took our flesh upon him, that He might take our sins upon Him. He was, says Luther, the greatest sinner, having the weight of the sins of the whole world lying upon Him…. and so appease God’s wrath.
3. Christ, clothing Himself with our flesh makes the divine nature more amiable and delightful to us. We need not be afraid to look upon God through Christ’s human nature. Through the lantern of Christ’s humanity we may see the light of the Deity.

Thomas Watson.

“Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will be for all the people.” Luke 2:10

If you can sing: “The Son, who is proclaimed the be the Lord and Saviour, is my Saviour”; and if you can confirm the message of the angel and say yes to it and believe it in your heart, then your heart will be filled with assurance and joy and confidence, and you will not worry much about… the best this world has to offer.

Faith is not only to believe in Mary’s Son but, rather, that He who lies in the virgin’s lap is our Saviour, that we accept this and give thanks to God who loved us that He gave us a Saviour who is ours, And for a sign He sent the angel from heaven to proclaim Him, in order that nothing else should be preached except that this Child is the Saviour. We should acknowledge and accept Him; confess Him as our Saviour in every need, call upon Him and never doubt that He will save us.

Martin Luther.

The first reason for the gift of the Incarnate Son to a perishing world is that He might be a sacrifice for its sin. The second reason is that He might be an example of a godly life to those who believe in Him. We cannot invert the order and say that He was given, first as our example, and secondly as our sin-offering before God. We cannot imitate Him until He has redeemed us from the power and guilt of sin; the first need of a sinner is pardon and moral freedom, the second, the ideal of a new life.

	From Peter's Pen (Soon to be 'From Dave's Desk') Read a brief welcome note from Peter, our Pastor. Incidentally, our new minister Dave West will join us on 1st Feb 2010.
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