Book: Ephesians

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

How might the biblical witness and the Eucharistic meal set before us shed light on our sense of vocation, on the offerings we seek to bring, individually and collectively?

The unity before God which we all desire is not yet the reality, but a pledge, of which our gathering is also a sign, but its fulfilment is yet to come.

In Christ we are one with all flesh and blood, and so our struggle is not against any other people, but against the spirits and powers and forces which would divide people and make them enemies.

If God seems unjust, we can and should question God’s integrity, for God welcomes our questions in order that the falsehoods might be stripped away and the truth revealed.

God calls us to welcome and care for “the strangers” the refugees and asylum seekers in our midst.

God calls us to live exuberantly, generously reflecting the good things God has done and becoming model citizens in the reign of God.

Though we get caught up in violent rivalries like Herod, God breaks through with the promise of a new kingdom where all are honoured.

But the call is to be “Fair Dinkum” with each other, to be open and trust who we are to this community.

Our One God and Father feeds us with one bread so that we might grow up into Christ and be the missional community the Spirit is leading us to become.

God created everything and destined everything to be part of the one glorious story of God’s love and grace, and through Jesus, God draws us back into the story.

God’s love for us is so great that God will do anything to give us a way out of the self-condemnation and self-destruction of continuing to live in conformity with the world’s ways.