24/4/22 God Who Moves Down
ALL AGE MESSAGE
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ALL AGE MESSAGE
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Advent ( from Latin adventus,”Coming”) is the preparation for the celebration of the birth of Jesus Christ.
We’re welcoming the eternal CHRIST – the Christ that is forever being born in the human soul and history.
It’s about us awakening to the birthing of God.
All Age: When the poor and crippled are not left out then we show what it looks like to live in God’s kingdom.
Message: Changing our guest list may show us what the radical hospitality of the Kingdom of God is like.
What would that look like in our churches?
Hope is something people are looking for at this time.
Nelson Mandela said, “May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears.” What we hope for is defined and achievable.
With all the Christmas Celebrations we can loose sight of Jesus.
Our minds and faith are easily led away from Christ. Domestic violence increases, along with suicides.
Easy to waste time seeking in the wrong places for the peace Christ came to bring – Christ is available for all today.
Jesus came into the world as the ‘upside down’ king – his kingdom is not of this world.
To commit to following Jesus is not to go along the pathway of power, authority or prestige.
Rather to relate with humility, through compassion, holding fast to a righteous way of living. The turmoil of the heavens was a sign that a new creation was in the making.
In Christ’s birth God proclaimed that the reality of peace had dawned on earth.
The proclamation of peace is costly…even Jesus and his parents became political refugees in Egypt.
In the struggle for liberation all must be connected and so we need each other.
Life is a journey -we all make right and wrong decisions.
We have things in life we regret.
If there is genuine love in a relationship then there will be forgiveness.
God says to us all, “My child,
welcome back you are forgiven”.