Posts Tagged ‘Church billboard’

St Matthew’s controversial billboards will continue

Friday, May 9th, 2014

The reverend Helen Jacob, Jacobi was inducted as the vicar of St Matthew in the City, Auckland New Zealand last week. She says St Matthew’s well known controversial billboards will continue. “What kind of message we have on them we will have to look at. It is such an interesting church.” Jacobi is the first Read more

Church modifies healing billboard

Tuesday, March 20th, 2012

The words ‘Jesus heals cancer’ have been removed from a billboard erected by a New Zealand church.

The church removed the words from the billboard on Wednesday, replacing them with a quote from the Bible: ‘Jesus heals every sickness and every disease – Matthew 4:23’.

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St Matthews in the City has moved away from traditional Christianity

Friday, December 16th, 2011

Lyndsay Freer, a spokesman for the Catholic diocese of Auckland, is unimpressed by the latest billboard raised by St Matthews in the City.

“Once again, St Matthew’s shows us that they have moved away from traditional Christianity, even though their hearts might be in the right place,” she said.

“It is true that Christmas is real and celebrates a real pregnancy.

“It is also true that the anxiety and needs of young solo mothers today need to be addressed with compassion and care.

“But in making this point, St Matthew’s ignores the gospel account of matters surrounding the pregnancy and birth of Jesus, in which Mary is not a shocked solo mother but a young woman who has given her assent and trust to God,” She said

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