It is only in light of the resurrection that we can comprehend the sin and death that we are being liberated from.
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Seeking and Sharing the Fullness of Life
Sermons on Liberation
When we approach God’s way of life and the Sabbath not as punishment, but as gift, the experience becomes a chance to rest from work and from striving; and to allow space for God through contemplation and re-creation and play.
Jesus calls us to turn away from pathways of judgement and condemnation and to follow him on the harder path of love and new life.
Jesus urges us to take stock, to recognise the sicknesses which warp us and the demons which colonise our hearts and our minds, to renounce them so that we become free to minister to one another, and to proclaim the good news in our words and our lives.
In Christ we are set free from all that would oppress us in order that we might be free to live in gracious and life-giving service of God and others.
Jesus overcomes the demonic powers which colonise our religious structures and thinking and which rob us of our freedom, integrity and life.
God’s love for us is so great that God will do anything to give us a way out of the self-condemnation and self-destruction of continuing to live in conformity with the world’s ways.
In Jesus, God is calling us to see and hear a gospel that takes us beyond rule making and sacred violence.
When we know ourselves as known by God, the demonic power of violent naming is broken and new life dawns.
God in Jesus Christ touches our grubby humanity to make it clean, so that human beings and human community might regain their colour, shape and original purpose.
The demonic forces of our culture and time colonise our lives but if we turn to Christ, he will drive away the demons and fill us with his Spirit. His truth will set us free.
The resurrection of Jesus is about the in-breaking of something which is so new, so different, so unheard of, that it changes things so entirely that we will never again become captive to all that is predictable, or ‘necessary,’ or ‘fated’.
Knowledge can be used to destroy or to liberate. In Jesus we see one whose teaching and actions are an integrated liberating message.