Topic: Reconciliation

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Jesus opens himself to the experience of those who are excluded and responds with a radical opening of the Table of God’s communion.

Jesus confronts us with our cannibalistic behaviour in order that we might follow him into a saving communion with God and one another.

Our common access to God through Christ breaks down walls of hostility, but we need to resist the universal impulse to build new ones.

Glimpses of the transformed world that God makes possible transfix us and leave us hungering for more.

Jesus’s priestly identity and mission have been passed on to us and are to be seen in our prayer and our lives.

Rather than close the book on who can and cannot be accepted into the church, the Bible calls us to follow Jesus on a path of continually expanding inclusion.

In his own demonstration of self-sacrificial love, Jesus has shown us what God is like and called us to love God and one another by loving likewise.

Jesus’s quest for reconciliation is far wider and more discomfortingly radical than our tendency to jump on the bandwagon of popular justice causes.

When we use the biblical law to reinforce a worldview of sin and punishment, we doom ourselves to live in a judgemental world, a world from which Jesus offers to break us free.

When Jesus exposes our aversion to having others recognised as our equals, he calls us to repent and celebrate God’s generosity to all. The marriage equality debate exposes another frontier of his challenge to us.

Law typically serves to contain the expression of human desire within safe bounds, but Jesus calls us to follow him in fulfilling the law through radical love and mercy that always seeks reconciliation.