St Michael's Uniting Church in Australia - Have Your Say

Have Your Say

General Discussion

• omar
  28th September, 2011
  4:19pm

  are muslims worshipping the same God of Israel and the Bible?

• Hartwig Legenhausen
  19th September, 2011
  6:04pm

  Your ad,Sept.17,The Saturday Age: Christianity, the religion of guilt, is one of the most relevant causes for unhappyness. DO NOT remove your own guilt from your own focus! Church has to deal with own crimes in history and nowadays.(2) Be selfcritical and be in charge of your own guilt (4,5) before giving advice to others. Developing a new identity..awareness,conception by creating a "New Religion"?? (8)Writing a new Bible? Jesus did not give out a list of doctrines?? (9) No DO/DO NOT? You SHAL/SHALL NOT...??You are quoting psychology,- so you should best know that all this did not and does not alter behaivour! Regards! Hartwig

• Jen
  13th March, 2011
  2:21pm

  I was not brought up in religion - lucky me. In my teen years I tried various churches. When married we went spasmodically to the local Uniting Church and I resented the time we spent there. Some many years back we went ot St Michaels to hear John Selby Spong speak and we went back the next Sunday and almost every Sunday after. We loved what we heard and even though it takes 5 hours out of our day we would not miss the experience, and have joined St Michaels.
  
  I cannot believe what I have read in some of the comments and wonder why those people attend this most wonderful church.
  
  Well done St Michael's

• Don Lee
  28th February, 2010
  8:51am

  I was disappointed that Dr Macnab, in his recent sermon on "Every new crisis requires a new faith", did not refer to a definition of faith contained in the Bible. Here in Hebrews 11:1 faith is described as the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen.
  
  While I agree that the five elements of the "new faith" referred to in the sermon (intelligence, responsiveness, strength of inner source, etc) are all important, there is one other important missing element. This is whether God exists, as Spirit (see Gen 1:2), and whether He is truly engaged in the midst of our everyday personal situations.
  
  According to Dr Nacnab, God is created in our image. This I believe is utterly false! Rather, we are created in God's image and He is supreme over us and not the other way around. This does not mean that He will do exactly as we ask; however we can be assured that as we trust God while still taking some reasonably responsibility for our actions, He does intervene in ways that are for our and other’s overall (eternal) good, and ultimately, according to His sovereign purposes in the universe.
  
  Perhaps Dr Macnab should replace those elegant public photos of himself with some other more appropriate symbolic reminder of God’s real presence, such as a picture of the Cross, the Bible or maybe a picture of a beautiful sunrise.
  

• clara
  31st January, 2010
  2:08pm

  If God is love than I believe God is a woman and not a man as so many men believe God is. One does not make war in the name of love.....men create war because of power and not beause of love....Jesus was not for war either ....

• Adam Jones
  13th November, 2009
  2:27pm

  As we move closer to Christmas I am thinking about how important it is to Jesus' message that he was born of a virgin mother and that he is the son of God?
  I do not think it is important. I think that Jesus' message is a good creed to live by regardless of who Jesus was or whether in fact it was Jesus who said it

• Judith Hope
  28th July, 2009
  11:44pm

  (formerly Jude Campbell)
  Having moved to Perth, and having been a member of St.Micheal's for some years prior, I am happy to learn of Dr. Macnab's unending quest for authenticity in faith practise... (And relieved to know that far from fading into age ...he is exampling his own creed of the 'next 30 Vital Years).
  
  Yeeeaaahh! At a time of global need for leadership in the face of 21st Century challenges ... this has to be a triumph over convention... towards a greater Truth.
  
  Dr. Macnab your audacity, courage and validity are inspirational.
  
  

• Sarin Holt
  17th July, 2009
  11:57pm

  I visited your church recently. All traces of Jesus seem to be removed. No crosses? Over the crucifixion I take it?
  
  But what I saw was Jesus replaced with Mr Macnab. A huge painting of him in the entry. The red velvet cloak that draws the eyes to the wearer. The centrality of the man. Not off to the side of God.. In front of God, before God. The orb - a doctors serpentine staff with a knob representing, well what?
  
  Symbolism is important. This symbolism is raising alarm bells. Narcissism comes to mind.
  
  The self before God.

• judy
  12th November, 2008
  11:26am

  I think Dr Macnab may just have the answer . What a sensible man.

• Lyn Kaigg
  12th November, 2008
  9:30am

  Just saw Dr.Francis Macnab on 9am
  I want to thank him for being realalistic about the bible ect. I turned away ffrom the church and went to Buddisim. Their approach to life is the way I try to live,
  but I still get the guilts because of the I was brought up
  
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