Topic: Incarnation

As difficult as it is to imagine, God is shockingly present with us in Jesus.

As creatures made in the image of God, imitation of God is the pathway to fullness of life.

We have become exiled from our destiny as God’s children, but Jesus has been born among us to reveal to us and restore us to that destiny.

Jesus full humanity meant that temptation was real for him, as it is for us. Temptation is not in itself bad, but indicates to us that we have a gift of choice.

The revelation of what God is on about in Christ will always upend our expectations and disrupt our lives.

In the face of monumental devastation and suffering, God speaks a word, and the word becomes flesh.

Making the Church in the incarnate body of Christ is costly for God, and both challenging and salvific for us.

God invites us to be immersed in another possible reality, to look at the world with the dark and contrary light that comes from the cross of Jesus.

We worship our God with words and images from the imagination of human beings, believing that God can take even what we say and do speak to us in a voice nor our own and images not our own.

Each human being is an icon of Christ and so the respect and care with which we deal with others is an expression of our devotion to Christ.

Icons, as representations of the incarnation rather than images of God, can serve to open us to God rather than becoming alternatives to God.

Embodied in all creation, God labours to bring to birth a new creation and the children of God.