Topic: Jesus

The instinct to call down fire on those we perceive as God’s enemies is a “fruit of the flesh” that must be supplanted by the fruits of love.

The God revealed to us in Jesus and experienced through the Holy Spirit is so dynamic and multi-facetted that we may find it hard to believe that we are always dealing with the one God.

Whenever we are invested in the status quo, we are at risk of being caught up in seeing the liberation that Jesus brings as a threat to be opposed.

In Christ’s ascension onto the mysterious cloud, we are gathered together into his mysterious presence.

Following the living Jesus is the pathway to healing, integrity and life, and sometimes it comes into conflict with “following the Bible”.

Outrageous love is the most obvious characteristic of Jesus, and therefore it is the one thing that will make us recognisable as his followers.

Conversion to the way of Jesus is not just a matter of belief, but requires a serious reckoning with our past complicity with attacks on his way.

When we crusade against the evil of others, we end up crusading against Jesus himself, for he asks us to become givers and lovers of life.

We have been drawn into an unstoppable rumour that keeps interrupting the dominant story of fear, hostility and death.

Jesus sets out to reshape our view of the relationships between sin, repentance and disaster, and if possible, to call us out of our spiral into global self-destruction.

Most of us are addicted to achieving results and success, and it is crippling us. Jesus leads us towards an unexpected and almost unrecognisable freedom.

Jesus possesses an astonishing freedom in God and will not be used to justify causes of nation, religion, status quo, or even his own family and friends.