Topic: Service

The call to live the beatitudes is not about turning them into a guilt-inducing to-do list, but about living a life that is a blessing to others.

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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.

To name Christ as King is to identify ourselves as dissenters to the claims of any other authority and to critique all power-mongering.

In our worship we drink in the vision of heaven and earth made one so that our yearning might be fuelled; strengthening us against despair and empowering us to strive for the renewal of the world.

Knowing Jesus intimately is the most important thing of all, but many of our otherwise good gifts and concerns are constantly getting in the way.

Jesus offers himself to us to serve and bless us, and calls us to do the same in serving and blessing others.

The forgiveness we experience in the risen Christ is dauntingly radical and we are called to share it.

Following Jesus in ministering among the needs around us is not a call to do everything ourselves.

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

Discovering who we are called to be is an ever-evolving journey as we follow Jesus in changing circumstances.

Jesus calls us to a new world in which the lives of nations revolve around bringing the previously marginalised to the centre of our national way of being. Nations that fail to do that collapse into self-destruction.

Our unwitting abusive treatment of the Royal family is a symptom of our entanglement in systemic persecution.