The Good Life A life of calling A life of character A life of compassion A life of courage A life of celebration

The Good Life 1975 – 1978 Richard Briers, Felicity Kendall, Penelope Keith, Paul Eddington

Professor Dame Sue Bailey Former Pres of Royal College of Psychiatrists The UK should brace itself for a tsunami of adults with mental health problems unless urgent action is taken to help today’s young people.

John 10: 1 - 10 ‘Very truly I tell you Pharisees, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold by the gate, but climbs in by some other way, is a thief and a robber. 2 The one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. 3 The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. 

4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice. 5 But they will never follow a stranger; in fact, they will run away from him because they do not recognise a stranger’s voice.’ 6 Jesus used this figure of speech, but the Pharisees did not understand what he was telling them.

7 Therefore Jesus said again, ‘Very truly I tell you, I am the gate for the sheep. 8 All who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep have not listened to them. 9 I am the gate; whoever enters through me will be saved. They will come in and go out, and find pasture. 10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full.

I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full. v10 Bios: material life Zoe: spiritual life

John 1: 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind.

John 4: 13 – 14 Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.

C S Lewis: God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine C S Lewis: God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on himself. He himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there.”

The thief comes to kill, steal and destroy.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.

I'm the guy who's got everything. I know I'm the guy who's got everything. I know. But I'm telling you, once you get everything, then you’re just left with yourself. I've said it before and I'll say it again: It doesn't help you sleep any better, and you don't wake up any better because of it.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.4 When he has brought out all his own, he goes on ahead of them, and his sheep follow him because they know his voice.

The Good Life A life of calling A life of character A life of compassion A life of courage A life of celebration