Our Clergy 

Rev Christopher Harrison


Rev Demetris Palos


Rev Mandla Gamede

Scripture: Hebrews 11:8-16
and Philippians 3:12-14
“I press on towards the goal”

‘LIFE IS A JOURNEY, ENJOY . . . . . . . . . . ”

“I will be a restless wanderer on the earth” – Genesis 4:14

“My father was a wandering Aramean, and he went down into Egypt with a few people” – Deuteronomy 26:5

1. OBEDIENCE
“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.” Hebrews 11:8

2. STRANGERS IN A FOREIGN COUNTRY
Hebrews 11:9 - By faith he made his home in the promised land like a stranger in a foreign country…”

Hebrews 11:13 - “And they admitted that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.” (NJKV)

1 Peter 1:1 – “To God’s elect, strangers in the world …”

‘paroikos’ – means ‘resident strangers.’

“BMC exists to be an instrument of Christ’s hope in our broken & fast-changing world’

3. KEEPING OUR DESTINATION IN MIND

Augustine - “Our hearts are restless until they find their rest in thee, O Lord.”

“Instead, they were longing for a better country – a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.” Hebrews 11:16

1 Peter 2:11 (Message) - “Friends, this world is not your home, so don’t make yourselves cozy in it.”

4. PUSH THROUGH THE DIFFICULT TIMES

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.”
Dan Rather

“If they had been thinking of the country they had left, they would have had opportunity to return.” Hebrews 11:15

Philippians 3:13 - “Forgetting what is behind … I press on towards the goal.”

? CHALLENGE

“But like every other journey, ours also has a middle – and that is our real journey: those years between birth and death.”
Billy Graham

“The real story is in the hyphen.” Steve Farrar

Rev Janet Verrier

Vuyelwa Legwale

Rev Dr Leon Klein