24/4/22 God Who Moves Down
ALL AGE MESSAGE
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The wilderness is a space where we unearth our innate potential and begin to transform into the individuals we are destined to become.
Lent offers a transformative space that encouraged deep reflection, growth, and connection to a broader spiritual reality.
In this time may we emerge from our wilderness stronger, wiser and ever closer to the heart of God.
John was God’s bulldozer! He prepared a road in the wilderness.
God chooses unlikely people in unlikely places to bring about his purposes.
‘Deserts’ for many people are very different places – places with guilt, disappointment, loss.
The way out of deserts is repentance then forgiveness, to bring about Grace and Peace.
Jesus’ healing on the Sabbath, challenges us to rethink rest, compassion, and justice. In a world obsessed with productivity, it is a timely reminder that true value isn’t earned—it’s inherent.
We are inspired to rest, to care more deeply, and to see how ancient wisdom speaks powerfully into modern life.
As the body of Christ, when we tap into our collective creativity together we can provide a theological understanding of God. In doing the bodies work together, we map our role of the body of Christ and our role in that body.
Epiphany is a good time to identify gifts and ministries we might share together
Jesus said, “Do you want to be made well?” Of course he did after being by the pool for 38 years!
When the time came he simply did as Jesus asked him … and was made well and was so happy.
The trouble was – it was healing on the Sabbath! The Jewish leaders were not happy!
Do we, in a moment of another’s moment of grace and joy, sometimes react negatively, like those leaders?
David Barrow calls us in the Uniting Church to be the “salt of the Earth” and embody public, practical discipleship that challenges market-driven culture and builds communities rooted in justice, generosity, and hope.
Through community organising—churches, unions, and civic groups—he urges faithful, to strategic action that reflects Christ’s radical love and counters “empire” or market values, citing that the church must be “the conscience of the state”, engaging politically and prophetically in the world to protect creation and uphold justice for all.