Book: Luke

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What is God challenging you to return to? Will you be a witness to the joy and love, and the possibilities of the alternative world heralded by Jesus?

Jesus models for us a willingness to listen, learn and grow rather than a domineering certainty that insists on knowing who’s right and who’s wrong.

It is not from the halls of power but from humble places that the love which offers wholeness and healing and peace erupts into life.

The baby whose coming is awaited will turn the world upside down (not just the lives of its parents!), and our counter-cultural observance of Advent is a necessary preparation of ourselves for that reality.

Angry prophets who tell us the hard-to-hear truth about ourselves pave the way for a new world to emerge.

The task of being changed into what God calls us to be involves a radical break with the established norms of our world.

The coming of Christ to transform the present world into the Kingdom of God will be earth-shattering, but we easily lose sight of it in our anticipation of “another Christmas”.

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.

By lifting us out our enthralment to evil and death, Jesus sets us free from all that corrupts us and opens us to share real life with him.

Jesus was born to reveal and fulfil what God had long sought to do; set people free to live joyously as God’s children.

The nativity story proclaims the basic themes of the gospel message; God enters into our suffering world as a victim of our violence, and is rejected by most but recognised by the nobodies.