and follow the lead of the Methodists again! That's what the Church needs to be about right now. In what their members pray for, for what they strive for, and ultimately also how they come across to others. The cross is where we need to be standing under. Do the outreach like the Wesleyan Methodists in England, not just trying to reach youngsters on TikTok, but always bringing the community inside the Church. It's never been about numbers, but what true Christians do inside the Body of Christ. Stand up against injustice like Christ taught us to. Non-violent but true to Him who came to give His life for us. Grace is out there if you only reach for it!
Social justice is an essential element of loving one’s neighbour as yourself.
Many of the great social reformers in England in the nineteenth century were Christian.
Thomas Clarkson, Wilberfoce, Fry, Josephine Bulter, Lord Shaftesbury , to name but a few.
Church and State are not the same, though we are called to pray for the State. Even Paul called for that prison. God uses strange people as his servants, Cyrus in Babylon.
Christian have an important outreach to the community. Archbishop elect Sarah amply showed this in her New Year message.
But our prime task is spreading the Gospel. God’s Son came at great cost, to reconcile us with God. Pure Grace.
@peterlee There's no excuse for inaction.The Good News of Jesus Christ demands a response. Although Jesus's cleansing of the Temple is generally understood as not a parable, it's still a historical event and prophetic action. What action isn't according to the Gospel than be on the right or lawful side of history then? It’s the profound dying to self and rising with Christ, that’s the entry point into the Church's own life and mission, a desperate call to live out Christ's love and sacrifice
The wheat and the chaff on this will be monumental. It does feel like there's a bumpy road ahead, if these days is not cause for protest, then it's the majority that have went against what was expected of them.
@FrugalNoodle I like your choice of words there. It's actually fitting for this Sunday's Gospel reading. In anything there's always final reckoning. Perhaps that's why they don't like The Godfather III
@Magicianzini Just watch them all fall. You don't have eyes to watch then? You don't watch from a distance then? Going against that isn't laughable, that's straight from the Gospel. It doesn't say watch, it says do something about it
