Book: Ephesians

An attitude of respectful silence is an essential part of a deep, intimate relationship with God.

What is God challenging you to return to? Will you be a witness to the joy and love, and the possibilities of the alternative world heralded by Jesus?

Jesus calls us to choose between the old bread of hostility and death and the new bread of compassion and life.

Our common access to God through Christ breaks down walls of hostility, but we need to resist the universal impulse to build new ones.

Glimpses of the transformed world that God makes possible transfix us and leave us hungering for more.

The light of Christ reaches the world through those who will bear the wounds of love.

God’s self-giving is to all of humanity, all of the time, and we are called to lift our eyes beyond our immediate concerns and stand in solidarity with the faithful who have gone before us.

En Cristo somos uno con toda la carne y la sangre, y por lo tanto nuestra lucha no es contra ningunas personas, sino contra los espíritus y los principados y los potestades que dividirían a la gente y les harían enemigos.

We only reliably recognise and combat evil by listening to Jesus and taking his wisdom into our hearts.

Building impressive buildings can be about a desire to monopolise and contain God, whereas God wants us to break down any walls that divide and exclude anyone.

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.

The feeling of distance and separation from God – which we all feel – is perception not reality… it is the fruit of our fear and our holding-back.