25th December 2022 Christmas Day “Christmas is Always Outside”
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We observe moral challenges as we consciously impact the world.
Created in God’s image, can we find Theologian, Paul Tillich’s idea, “God is the Ground of our Being.”
Jesus tells the parables of the lost sheep and the lost coin to show God’s urgent and compassionate focus on what is lost.
Unlike the Pharisees, Jesus emphasizes rejoicing over recovery, not punishment.
These stories reveal God’s loving gaze—a divine attention that sees, values, and embraces each
person. We are invited to live within this “solar system of grace,” held by unconditional love.
Though such love can sometimes make us feel inadequate, it also reminds us that everyone experiences failure and brokenness, and yet God loves us just as we are.
The power of God’s extravagant forgiveness is so great, so
beautiful, so mystifying, that it surely cannot help but change us.
We cannot experience it and then go on being closed to others.
Restorative justice calls out oppression and violence for the evil they are and judges them: forgiven.
In the text, Moses has moved out of the Empire and is in the wilderness with his people living in tents.
God provides to their worried minds about the need of sustenance, a rain of bread comes in the morning, so their bellies have food.
He assures them hoarding of food is not needed. Abundance in scripture is about how life is organised so that all have enough.
The ‘Upside Down Kingdom of God’ tells us something about ourselves and that our day to day way of operating, is not the same as the way God operates.
Greatness in his followers is about serving. Leaders are the servants of all and God’s Grace is there for everyone.
The amazing radical truth of the reincarnation