This episode touches on events in America and the UK relating to Donald Trump, BLM, racism, COVID-19 in late May/early June 2020
"Jesus looks out on the crowd and sees desperate need – he sees confusion and anxiety, he sees a lack of meaning and purpose, he sees people struggling with disease and poverty and the prejudice of others.
- He sees humanity torn and bruised – and his heart is broken too.
- He is filled with compassion and love for them all.
- That is where we trace our roots as a Christian community today. Not in the chequered history of the church; not in the heroes or villains of church and society down the years; not in the triumphalism or defeatism of the church over the centuries."
- ... All too often across the world we’ve seen statues pulled down, but deeper structures and attitudes remaining unchanged. What’s needed is real change not virtue signalling or empty gestures.
- Wishful thinking and woolly-minded actions will not do.
- We need to reach deep into hurting humanity bringing that healing grace of Jesus in word and action. As Christians we must keep that innocence of the dove – that integrity and generosity of spirit, but also use our minds – being shrewd like snakes – thinking carefully and deeply about the injustices and hurts in our world and how to truly share in the kingdom work of Jesus today – a kingdom of justice, compassion, healing and peace.
- May God give us the courage and wisdom to be workers for Christ today – for the sake of all races, all colours, all humanity.
