Book: Acts

The ‘death of the self’ in baptism, modelled in Jesus, enables us to live openly and generously instead of fearfully and defensively.

Salvation is about being set free to live life in all its fulness, even in the midst of conflict and suffering.

The reputation that matters is a reputation for loving as Jesus loved and, like him, that will be seen as disreputable.

The Holy Spirit is poured out on us so that the liberating presence of Christ may be with us all everywhere, freeing us from fear to live and speak boldly of the new life we have tasted.

The Church is one body, sent into the world to live the life Jesus has begun, a life of love, reconciliation and mercy.

With Jesus we are baptised into a Spirit-inspired costly life of living the new culture of scandalous reconciliation.

The Spirit is there for us where ever we gather in the one place for that one purpose.

Jesus offers himself to the world from a vulnerable place on the margins, and he calls us to trust the Holy Spirit and do likewise.

God invites us to say “yes” to the Spirit, to be open to seeing ourselves beyond the constraints others place on us and to be open to forming new community with God and with God’s world.

We are called to privilege the God of love and liberation over the economic realities of dog-eat-dog capitalism, and prevent that ‘reality’ colonising the truth of love with its divide-and-conquer business plan.

The Spirit of God is acting to bring life out of death and hope and vitality out of despair.

The risen Christ and his word are often revealed in the words and actions of a stranger. Sometimes we are called to welcome and heed the stranger; and sometimes we are called to be the faithful stranger to others.