Preacher: Nathan Nettleton

En Cristo somos uno con toda la carne y la sangre, y por lo tanto nuestra lucha no es contra ningunas personas, sino contra los espíritus y los principados y los potestades que dividirían a la gente y les harían enemigos.

Jesus rejects the opportunity to fulfil our hopes and expectations in order that he might give us more than we thought possible.

Building impressive buildings can be about a desire to monopolise and contain God, whereas God wants us to break down any walls that divide and exclude anyone.

God is most likely and able to work through those who accept their own weakness and don’t try to forcefully assert their own power and influence.

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 calls us to faithful expressions of the Culture of God which usually look unimpressive and unruly when judged by the world’s usual standards of success.

Satan casts out satan all the time in our divisive attempts to protect ourselves by demonising and expelling others.

We all have different roles within the ongoing ministry of Christ, but that ministry is ultimately not dependent on the success of individual leaders.

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.

The glory of God is most fully revealed in Jesus’s willingness to suffer death at the hands of the law.

We are prepared to sacrifice and kill in the name of our God, but God is willing to be sacrificed and be killed to save us, even when we were enemies.

Jesus calls us to turn away from pathways of judgement and condemnation and to follow him on the harder path of love and new life.