Topic: Mission

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An evolving understanding of being God’s chosen people reveals the call to focus on being a blessing to others and the world.

When we truly encounter God in worship, we see everything in all its splendour and horror and are transformed for mission.

Jesus’s agenda, which we are called to follow, is about healing, liberating and gathering in the excluded, not purifying the community by excluding anyone.

In baptism we follow Jesus in being “ordained” and empowered for mission.

Living water is for all of us that would like to try it. When we try it, our lives change and instead of being thirsty we become a spring. As a result, our neighbours can try it too.

In baptism we are adopted into a new family that is radically inclusive of those who have been cut off.

In baptism, the Holy Spirit is ordaining us (all of us) for mission.

Jesus challenges us to bring our lives to where God is active, to share in building the kingdom of God.

Being missioners needs to be patterned on Jesus if it is to have any integrity at all, and so it will be characterised by intentional engagement, genuine curiosity, deep listening, allowing others to be a blessing to us, and trusting ourselves to God.

In God’s vision for humanity, every person and the role they play is valued and cared for. When society fails to live up to this, the Church is called to go against the flow and courageously champion and model it.

Jesus calls us to a Resurrection Imagination, praying for courage and discernment on how to use your resources until the dream of a world where there are no poor among us is fulfilled.

In determining our church’s way forward, we need to discern who we exist to serve, and it shouldn’t just be ourselves.