Book: John

Jesus gives us a peace that is not secured at the expense of victims, and he sends a Defence Counsel to lead the defence of the world’s victims.

Jesus is the model for rightly honouring the victims by exposing and resisting the systems that sacrificed them.

Extravagant devotion to the crucified Christ is the foundation of our compassion and care for other victims of the world’s callousness.

Recognising Jesus as Lord requires such a reversal of conventional values that it cannot but dangerously transform us.

To name Christ as King is to identify ourselves as dissenters to the claims of any other authority.

Jesus invites us to find our communion in the violence done to him instead of in doing violence to others.

Jesus becomes a victim of our systems of feeding on one another in order to forgive us, set us free, and nourish us for life.

The God who we encounter in such different ways is, nevertheless, the one God, and we are called to share in the life of this one God.

Love is a gift which we invited to become at home in, receiving and enjoying it, not questioning, measuring and regulating it.

God will do great things with us, but will not impose them on us, so we have to relinquish control before God brings about the growth we crave.

In the encounter with Jesus, our self-delusion and our scapegoating are painfully exposed, but with the possibility of forgiveness and freedom.

To those for whom the griefs of yesterday or the fear of tomorrow is just too much, come Lord Jesus.