24/4/22 God Who Moves Down
ALL AGE MESSAGE
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ALL AGE MESSAGE
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The message celebrates the spiritual gift of hospitality—rooted in childhood lessons, cross-cultural encounters, and deep human connection.
Through personal stories from Australia to the Holy Land, Rev Dr Helen Richmond shows how welcoming others can reflect God’s love in simple yet powerful ways.
To grow our own food we need a garden of good soil, free of weeds and rubbish.
To grow the fruits of The Spirit we need to constantly evaluate our words and acts.
We need to work with God to evaluate what is sinful (bad) and what is good.
We need to be sure we are not tricked by flowers that are actually weeds!
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.
‘Oneness’ – is creating a faith where it is ok to be yourself and be affirmed. The message of Jesus is inclusiveness.
Some may see “Oneness” as divisive, the message of Jesus is that it is inclusive.
The ‘Oneness’ of God can reach out to all people – need to have room for everyone in our community.
‘Oneness is really important in ourselves, our church, our community for love to be shared and everyone openly welcomed.
What is revealed – who is this Jesus?
This story tells of God’s abundant Love embracing all human beings.
God fills the expectation far in abundant to the expected – “Grace upon grace”.
The Transfiguration is just before the season of Lent and sheds light on what the Christian pilgrimage is all about. Christian Pilgrimage is about going where Jesus goes, and doing what Jesus would do and not falling asleep on the job.