LAUNCHING THE YEAR TOGETHER

Life is better together - that’s something our Covid-induced separation has only reinforced. Our Community Groups at St Luke’s are a powerful way we can grow together with Jesus, but it’s not automatic. So to launch our Community Groups on the right footing, we’ve invited Dr John Dickson to share how we can be the kind of communities that God wants us to be, as we eat together and commit ourselves in prayer to God and each other.

If you’re not already in a Community Group, please signup here.

We’ll start with drinks outside, enjoy dinner together in the church building, a talk from John Dickson, prayer, then dessert in- or outside. Food will be individually served and we’ll have better spacing than eating at a restaurant. Please bring a face-mask for times we’re not eating.

Guest speaker

Dr John Dickson thinks, writes, and speaks. Starting out as a singer-songwriter, he now works as an author, academic, and media presenter. In 2007 he co-founded (with Dr Greg Clarke) the Centre for Public Christianity, and has published 18 books and three TV documentaries. He teaches ‘Historical Jesus’ at the University of Sydney, and is a Visiting Academic (2016-2021) in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford. In 2019 he was appointed Distinguished Fellow and Senior Lecturer in Public Christianity at Ridley College, Melbourne. In all that he does, whether in the media or the church, creative or academic, he strives to be a public advocate for the Christian faith. His podcast Undeceptions seeks to promote clarity about Christianity in doubting times. Having lost his father in a plane crash at 9, John is sympathetic to the sorrows and questions of our world, and values his wife and three children above all other gifts of this life.

details

Date: Wed 9 Feb
Time: 7pm-9.15pm
Location: St Luke’s church building
Cost: $15/$10

This event won’t be livestreamed, but we hope to offer John’s talk afterwards on request.