Book: Acts

The decision to repent and accept Christ’s gift of forgiveness and life involves a life change which includes a new willingness to honour and serve Christ in the stranger.

The message of Pentecost is the message of Pascha – Christ is risen and, in him, we are liberated from our captivity to the spirits of death, fear, despair, and division, and freed to dance to the Holy Spirit’s tune.

When God accepts and gifts those who are supposed to be excluded according to our theology, then its time to change our theology to a rule of love instead of a rule of purity.

The day of Pentecost is the day when the Spirit comes to interrupt and call into question the inevitability of our despair.

The resurrection has broken open many old certainties, and our ethics must now be grounded in the new things God is doing, characterised by radically inclusive love, rather than in the old restrictions.

God has promised that if we stay connected to him, then he will give us the energy and the love to go out from our comfort-zones into the alien territory of those who need God’s love most of all.

The message that salvation is exclusively in the hands of the risen Christ may be unfashionable, but it is the only message of salvation we have to offer.

The wound of abandonment which haunts every human being will find its healing in Christ who is everywhere present as the authority and power of God.

We go out not to take Christ to others, but to meet Christ among them and reconnect his story and theirs.

The extent of God’s grace constantly astounds us as it floods over ever social barrier we erect.

The Holy Spirit, poured out on the church, opens pathways of communication, enabling the Gospel to break through the multiple barriers to our hearing. Barriers are also broken down to enable us to to communicate with one another and with God.

God breaks down all social barriers and differentiates between us on love alone.