Like Mary, we are called to participate in God’s recreation and blessing of the world, and when we comprehend that call, we will, like Mary, explode with joy.
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
An Open Table where Love knows no borders
Sermons on Mission (Page 2)
God calls us to welcome and care for “the strangers” the refugees and asylum seekers in our midst.
Our One God and Father feeds us with one bread so that we might grow up into Christ and be the missional community the Spirit is leading us to become.
God calls us to live out the gospel, not just to think about, not just to pray about it, but to live it. Jesus called us to action, not to change their thinking but to change their lives.
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.
We are humble servants who are strengthened and empowered by the Spirit to enter into the redeeming work of God.
The experience of the resurrected Christ may not be as instantly transformative as we’ve often thought, but those who seek Christ’s self-revelation will grow into his mission.
The answers to the questions about our future directions are not easy, but we can trust the God who holds our future in his hands.
Rediscovering the mission of Jesus is one pathway through which we might re-enter the experience of dependence on God.
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 experience of resurrection results in joy and mission.
God has ordained that the work of God should flow from a deep and abiding being with God, from a baptism in the love which holds all things together in Christ.
Locating our struggles within the bigger picture of God’s purposes can give hope and purpose, but it also places us in a challenging place of priestly mission.
When we truly encounter God in worship, we see everything in all its splendour and horror and are transformed for mission.
The church rightly has an impact on the world, bringing out the taste of God, but it won’t come from pedantic obedience.
When we encounter the reality of God we are overcome with our own unworthiness, and we are confronted with a choice – to push God away and hide from our self-realization, or to accept God’s gracious invitation to mercy, transformation and mission.
Whole-hearted devotion to God and commitment to God’s mission brings joyous freedom, but also often results in derision, rejection and even violent opposition.
Christ’s call to respond to his presence in the needy is a call for the church to embrace a lifestyle of radical communal hospitality (but we have often used it to justify empires built on the labour of guilt-ridden, over-extended, under-prepared Christians!)
Baptism is a public affirmation of our openness to the God who transforms us and calls us to continue the mission of Jesus.
As small as our missions may seem, they have cosmic significance in Christ’s mission.