Topic: Commitment

When things are desperate, God calls us only to be faithful and committed, because the outcomes are in God’s hands, not ours.

The once and for all sacrifice of Christ and our living sacrifice of ourselves are becoming one sacrifice as we and Christ become one.

We are faced with a choice, a crisis, each time we hear the Word, which slices through our souls, our families, our values, and demands our commitment without reservation.

Religious zeal often turns violent, but the revelation of Jesus Christ makes known a God who repudiates our violence and sets us free from it.

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.

With Jesus as our pattern, we find a new identity in our uncompromising allegiance to God’s ways.

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

God offers to make us his children, a position that may not appeal to our autonomous ambitions, but which offers honour and security.

Jesus leads the way in exposing and opposing violence, no matter what the cost, and life is found in following his lead.

God calls us to live out the gospel, not just to think about, not just to pray about it, but to live it.  Jesus called us to action, not to change their thinking but to change their lives.

The power of sin over us will not be broken by trying harder, but by pursuing Christ and Christ alone.