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From YouTube: Time for Reflection - 2 October 2018
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A
B
Members,
thank
you
for
this
opportunity
to
address
you
today.
As
you
may
know,
one
of
their
duties,
and
indeed
privileges
of
the
Christian
faith.
Mr.
pre
for
leaders
and
those
in
authority
and
I
want
to
assure
you
that
we,
the
Kirk
Prairie
for
you
regularly
before
the
God
and
father
of
our
Lord,
Jesus,
Christ
and
I,
might
add
that
we
pray
for
you
and
not
against
you.
Despite
what
somebody
might
have
told
you.
Thank
you
for
your
hard
work
and
your
service,
particularly
whenever
you've
demonstrated
compassion
to
the
poorest
in
our
communities.
B
B
Christians,
believe
God
has
revealed
himself
as
lawgiver,
not
only
in
the
world
around
us,
but
also
in
Scripture
and
the
one
to
whom
we
must
give
account
those
laws
on
which
our
whole
justice
system
is
based.
Our
boundaries
that
protect
us
and
applied
in
love,
they
add
to
the
happiness
of
the
people.
It
can
feel
exhilarating
to
throw
off
those
laws
for
a
moment.
B
Perhaps
for
some
in
our
society,
it's
felt
exciting,
casting
off
the
judeo-christian
ethic
that
has
cemented
Western
variety
for
two
two
millennia,
but
casting
off
all
restraint
does
not
free
people
but
leave
so
many
in
our
communities
alone,
addicted
and
without
purpose.
I
once
watched
a
game
of
rugby
union
where
a
tackle
came
in
with
such
force
that
the
leg
went
back
at
the
knee,
it
has
to
be
imagined.
Rather
than
described
and
the
TV
camera
showed
it
from
every
single
possible
angle,
that
leg
was
completely
free,
but
it
was
useless.
B
B
The
pressing
matters
of
the
day
are
out
the
way
vision,
never
comes
about
by
committee,
and
if
the
Church
of
Scotland
and
the
Parliament
have
one
thing
in
common,
it
may
be
committees,
no
vision
comes
about
when
a
man
or
a
woman
sees
what
could
be
I've
served
in
the
people
of
Westar
heels
for
the
past
13
years.
We
have
a
vision
where
loneliness
and
addiction
and
purple
at
personalist
ness
are
only
spoken
of
in
the
past.
B
It's
a
vision,
I
believe
that
local
churches
in
local
communities
are
ideally
placed
to
provide
the
answer
to,
and
if
myself
or
the
community
I
serve
lack
vision,
there
is
an
ancient
prayer
that
is
available
to
all
and
even
to
members
today.
It
was
turned
into
a
very
famous
timeless
him.
It
simply
says
be
thou
my
vision,
thanks
for
listening.