StAG
MAG
June 2017
[email protected] • www.stag.org/mag •
Alasdair
Paine
standrewthegreat •
@StAG_Cambridge
DEAR FRIENDS...
Every year at this time we say goodbye to lots of dear friends who’ve been members at StAG
and who are moving on from Cambridge. Some are leaving because they’ve finished their
degree or other training; others with their job; others deliberately, in order to join gospel
work in other parts of the country or the world. You can read about some of them in this
magazine.
Rachel and I, and many others who stay, find these farewells painful! If you are one of
those moving, we thank God for you, and will miss you. But we are also so thankful that
you will be serving Christ elsewhere, in other churches, and so be fulfilling one of our
church’s aims, “Gospel workers to the world”. For we long to be used by God to serve the
Lord’s work all round the world in this way. We want to be a church to serve other churches.
Please pray that all who move on this year would be used by God to take the gospel
elsewhere, and that here at StAG the Lord would supply our needs for the work in the
absence of all who’ve gone. May He keep us here flat out in training
more generations of useful Christians — useful for Christ all over the
world.
Michael
Nicholson
DATES FOR
YOUR DIARY
Church
Picnic
Sunday 2nd July
from 12noon
St Faith’s School
CENTRAL
TEACHING
MEETINGS
Wednesday
5th & 12th July
See back page for
more details
REVIEW: THE BIG EGO TRIP
What makes me worth something? How can we cope with failure and feeling worthless? How
should we bring up our children to have a healthy view of themselves and their value?
If you want the answer to those questions, The Big Ego Trip is the book for you. Psychiatrist
Glynn Harrison tackles self-esteem and what the gospel has to offer in this area.
I found this book to be very helpful – it’s readable, insightful and leaves you thinking long after
you’ve put it down.
Glynn begins by showing how self-esteem ideology is everywhere – so common we may not
notice it (“You’re special! You’re worth it! Believe in yourself!”). But while the self-esteem
movement promises much, it fails to deliver and may actually cause harm. Glynn’s especially
good at showing how Christians all too easily buy into self-esteem ideas without even realising
it – and the damaging results that follow. I imagine any parent would be greatly helped by the
material on bringing up our kids in a culture of self-esteem. But the highlight is Glynn’s
explanation of how the gospel is the answer. The gospel settles the question of my worth by
telling me God loves me as his child. And with the question of my worth settled, I’m freed from
worrying about my worth – and so freed up to forget about myself and get on serving others.
Highly recommended.
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The Big Ego Trip
By Glynn Harrison
£8.46 from
10ofthose.com