Topic: Formation

The way of blessedness that comes through obedience and submission to God’s will, but the choice lies in our hands.

All creation waits impatiently for humanity to work and pray its way into the fullness of our identity in Christ, for only then will all creation be safe and free.

In the midst of our world, with its trials, sins, hunger, and longing for the rule of love, the prayer of Jesus leads us back to our loving God and Father.

In the culture of Jesus, the very conditions that create discomfort, struggle, suffering and even scorn, paradoxically are transformed into the essential ingredients to inherit and inhabit the kingdom of God.

Jesus leads us through the confusion of transition times, into a new space with hugely expanded horizons and lives made meaningful in a global way.

Jesus calls us to follow his lead in bringing healing, hope and positive leadership to others, and not to be too worried about anxious and vexatious criticism.

Acknowledging and appreciating Jesus is relatively easy, but we find it much more difficult to transform our lives in conformity with his teaching.

Jesus models for us a willingness to listen, learn and grow rather than a domineering certainty that insists on knowing who’s right and who’s wrong.

The task of being changed into what God calls us to be involves a radical break with the established norms of our world.

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

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.

To grow up well, children need to be anchored to a broad community with shared values, which nevertheless allows for individual differences.