Topic: Worship

God approaches us in an eager desire for communion, so our task is not to strive for communion, but simply to open ourselves to receive it.

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

United with Christ in baptism we cross the threshold from death to life, and in Eucharist we continue to touch the scars which nourish our faith and inspire our worship.

True worship, which honours and pleases God, is a seamless combination of ritual praise and a life lived in doing good for others.

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

Christ is so present we loose the ability to see him. We need to worship to recover our sight.

If we can lose ourselves in the worship of Christ, then Christ will come to fill our emptied egos with his own self which now dances in the freedom of God.

The experience of resurrection results in joy and mission.

The Advent season is a gift that illumines our present with light from our promised goal, to shape us as a people of patient and vigilant faithfulness.

There is no such thing as a ritual-free space, and performed well or performed badly, rituals change things, change people’s lives.

The resurrection of Jesus is about the in-breaking of something which is so new, so different, so unheard of, that it changes things so entirely that we will never again become captive to all that is predictable, or ‘necessary,’ or ‘fated’.

Our liturgical expression of faith can nurture but not substitute for putting our faith into action.