Topic: Church

God speaks prophetically through the Church and through some individuals, and the prophetic task is inseparable from humility, constructiveness, graciousness, love, patience and generosity.

Our One God and Father feeds us with one bread so that we might grow up into Christ and be the missional community the Spirit is leading us to become.

Jesus will be there for us in the midst of the storms, but we are to stay together in his boat rather than jump ship in a misguided “display of faith”.

God is with us everywhere, whether we realise it or not, but there is still value in honouring special places of promise and revelation.

The unity of the churches, as an expression of reconciliation, is integral to the message of good news in Christ.

The church is formed when we ask Christ to rule over us and make a covenant with him to define the terms.

The Church will always contain more than its fair share of maliciousness, pettiness and nastiness, but the temptation to try to weed it out is a temptation to abandon the way of Christ and make things worse.

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

The answers to the questions about our future directions are not easy, but we can trust the God who holds our future in his hands.

The values Christ calls us to live by can (for most people) only be lived in community with the saints, past and present.

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