ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html lang="en"> <head> <!--Serif PagePlus 9 HTML Export--> <!--Supports HTML 4.0--> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title>Outreach House Witherslack - Interdependent Communities</title> <style type="text/css"> <!-- body,td,th { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size : 10px; color : #000000; } img { position:relative; left:12px; top:0px; } --> </style> <script language='javascript'> function goSetCommunityHeight() { if (parent == window) return; else parent.setCommunityIframeHeight('communityframe'); } </script> </head> <body onload="goSetCommunityHeight()" style="height:100%" bgcolor="#d1d7cd" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080" text="#000000"> <div style="height:870px;"> <table width="100%" border="0" bgcolor="#d1d7cd" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" cols="2" style="font-size:14pt; height: auto;"> <tr> <td width="100%" colspan="2" style="padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; height: auto; vertical-align: top;"> <p style="font-weight:bold; font-family: Felix Titling; font-size: 9pt;" align="center">Our church community <br />our village community <br />our global community</p> <p>We believe that Jesus has turned the world upside down in so many ways  both in how he lived himself and how he asks us to live today. He valued people and principles that society rejected or ridiculed; He saw exactly what was inside a heart rather than being  blinded by whatever outer  clothing a person chose to  wear . He treasured people because of who they were rather than what they did. And this usually meant he sought out the grief-stricken and broken and poor and neglected and misunderstood. </p> <img class="community-1" title="1 John 3:16" src="community-1.jpg" width="255px" height="168px" alt="community-1.jpg" style="border-right: solid 4px #d1d7cd; border-top: solid 0px #d1d7cd"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%" colspan="2" style="padding: 10px 10px 10px 10px; vertical-align: top;"> <p>Jesus saw everything as it really was and, one day, he s the one who ll finally bring justice for us all. </p> <p>The challenge for us as we seek to follow him is to work out what that looks like here, today. </p> <p>We think it means not being selfish, not even merely being  nice people (which often means caring or doing or giving for only as long or as far as is comfortable for us, or doesn t interfere with our own needs or when we re thanked for it). Rather, we think it means being free enough to love our neighbour (and our enemy) (Matthew 5:43) and lay down our lives for our friends (1 John 3:16). </p> <p>As we study God s word and strive to put it into practice we re hoping to become transformed more and more to live like and look like Jesus; we can only do this because we re so loved by Him ourselves. </p> </td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>