Book: John

Because we really don’t have the whole truth, the Spirit will be heard only when we are together, listening to one another in love.

We are not added to a particular church flock in order to be in the “right” group, but in order to learn, with Christ, to love others and lay down our lives for the world.

The glory of God is most fully revealed in Jesus’s willingness to suffer death at the hands of the law.

We are prepared to sacrifice and kill in the name of our God, but God is willing to be sacrificed and be killed to save us, even when we were enemies.

God has become flesh so that we might know God and realise our own destiny in God in the world.

Preparing ourselves for the coming Lord is not a matter of rigorous rule keeping, but rules can help us learn the appropriate new way of being.

We are a ragtag bunch, but in witnessing to God’s mercy and love, we become the people of God together.

Jesus is the door through which we pass to receive life – life in his name – a life of authenticity, a life of freedom, a life of purpose.

God’s refining work is done not through judgement and punishment, but through the transforming power of love.

God gives us the love we thirst for, even while we are still fighting against God, and in doing so, God sets the pattern for us to follow that will bring freedom to the world.

Jesus calls us to entrust ourselves into the care of the Spirit who will carry us into the unknown future of God.

Jesus is the “Lamb of God”, a sacrifice offered by God to appease and expose the sin of the world – the sacrificial monster of human blame-shifting and scapegoating.