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Our Minister - Rev Richard Sherlock
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Richard came to a saving faith in Plymouth
in 1990 when challenged by a friend called Larrie (who
subsequently became his wife) and her university friends. Then
the faith he has known since childhood (having grown up
through the church but moved away in his teens) became real
and relevant to his life and has since defined who he is and
where he is going.
In 2005, after 21 years, Richard gave up
his career in semiconductor engineering and started training
at the South Wales Baptist College (Cardiff) and has spent the
following two years as the associate student minister in a church
in Wales.
He holds that in everything the centrality
and supremacy of scripture takes precedence for it is the true
and sufficient revelation of God. It is utterly trustworthy
and essential to us as individuals, as churches and as a
society. He firmly believes that the church is a living body,
a family that should delight to gather for worship, bible
study, laughter, to share meals and experiences, and to enjoy
one another's company and in all things give thanks to God.
But above all the church has been commissioned by Christ to
share the good news of the Gospel with all and will be
empowered and guided to do so by the Holy Spirit. For as a
previous Archbishop of Canterbury, Rev William Temple, once
said:
"The church is the only co-operative society in the
world that exists for the benefit of its non-members."
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Richard on a busy day! |
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"To respond to the charges: Yes much
of last week's sermon was lifted from Scripture, and no, I
don't consider that plagiarism"
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