Topic: Fullness of Life

When we commit ourselves to following Jesus, we surrender all our personal aspirations and our share in the aspirations of our nation, in order that we might receive the life of Christ.

Sexual Intimacy is an exquisitely beautiful gift from God, but attempts to control and repress it frequently distort it into a hypocritical and malevolent force.

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

By lifting us out our enthralment to evil and death, Jesus sets us free from all that corrupts us and opens us to share real life with him.

Jesus wants to lift us beyond the deadening conformity that seeks to silence us and confine us to a stunted life.

God promises the best for us if we follow the way of Jesus, and faith is actively trusting that that pathway will indeed be the way of life.

Despite our often minimal vision for ourselves, and our feeling of not being important to God, Jesus Christ is committed to bringing us to the fullness of life and wholeness.

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

Jesus does not burden us with crippling moral expectations, but humbly takes our burdens on himself and frees us to relax into the life of God.

The Ten Commandments are not about creating a system of law and punishment. They are a window into the stories and the lifestyle of the culture of God.

Jesus is the door through which we pass to receive life – life in his name – a life of authenticity, a life of freedom, a life of purpose.

God’s mission is much bigger than us, and to play our part in it, we need to live freely and fearlessly and maintain a humble and faithful connection with the traditions and wisdom of the wider Church.