Topic: Mission

Locating our struggles within the bigger picture of God’s purposes can give hope and purpose, but it also places us in a challenging place of priestly mission.

The church rightly has an impact on the world, bringing out the taste of God, but it won’t come from pedantic obedience.

When we encounter the reality of God we are overcome with our own unworthiness, and we are confronted with a choice – to push God away and hide from our self-realization, or to accept God’s gracious invitation to mercy, transformation and mission.

Whole-hearted devotion to God and commitment to God’s mission brings joyous freedom, but also often results in derision, rejection and even violent opposition.

Christ’s call to respond to his presence in the needy is a call for the church to embrace a lifestyle of radical communal hospitality (but we have often used it to justify empires built on the labour of guilt-ridden, over-extended, under-prepared Christians!)

Baptism is a public affirmation of our openness to the God who transforms us and calls us to continue the mission of Jesus.

As small as our missions may seem, they have cosmic significance in Christ’s mission.

Empowered by resurrection joy, we are sent to continue the mission of Christ.

God’s church is to be a place of cleansing and healing and preparation for mission.

God calls and equips us to carry on the mission of Jesus regardless of the response.

In baptism, the Holy Spirit is ordaining us for mission.

Jesus helps us to identify the oppressed and brokenhearted and to see how we can become agents of renewal and restoration.