With or Without a Temple
While a dedicated building can serve a valuable role in our worship, God calls us to follow far beyond the confines of the building.
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Singing our Way into Life
Worshipful singing together helps shape our communal identity as a people who can live for love, joy and reconciliation in a world of hostility and oppression.
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Putting our lives where our mouths are
The measure of the value of our worship is the measure of the transformation of our lives into imitations of the love and kindness of Jesus.
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The Spirit of Oneness and Onening
We can only keep the UNITY OF THE SPIRIT by experiencing the Oneness of Christ in all the parts of ourselves and each other.
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Toxic Chosenness
When misunderstood, being “the chosen” can mutate into a toxic culture of entitlement that produces horrific criminal behaviour, and Jesus calls us to join him in challenging that culture.
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Salvation in an Age of Tribalism
Healing the world’s tribalism and uniting us as one human family is the central goal of the gospel, the mission of salvation, the realisation of the kingdom of God.
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Baying for Blood
In his suffering death, Jesus calls us to solidarity with all who suffer, and in his complete lack of vengefulness, the risen Christ offers the hope of healing from our violence.
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When Churches Picket Each Other
God is most likely and able to work through those who accept their own weakness and don’t try to forcefully assert their own power and influence.
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The Table of Grief
Though the experience of grief often feels like an absence of God, it is a deep experience of the heart of God, and is symbolised as such in the brokenness of the Eucharist.
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To Reign Over Us?
Despite our almost idolatrous attachment to social structures like traditional family and monarchy, God wants us to live up to our calling to be a radically egalitarian community of prayerful shared responsibility.
