“A confessing church is a Church committed to cultivating ‘Shalom’, cultivating ‘Le Va’; a Church that takes our baptism seriously by simply loving people and things in such ways that give expression to God’s healing justice, the promise of God’s renewal and restoration in, through and for all things…
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Confession becomes a conduit for us to realise, release and experience the kind of wholeness, the kind of beautiful and healthy interconnectedness, forgiveness and healing-justice that is a part of God’s promised future more fully in the here and now.”
- @corycarl
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Beloved children of God don’t miss this: You are forgiven!
Jesus reveals the scandal that God loves because that is who God is. Confession doesn’t switch on God’s grace!
God’s ever-flowing grace is the context in which we can open to truth, and confess all that we would otherwise hope to hide.
Jesus’ whole ministry is doling out forgiveness - like fear, shame and secrecy are going out of fashion - and healing, light and love are breaking out.
So Look to Jesus and see:
There is nothing we can do to make God love us more.
There is nothing we can do to make God love us less.
For love is who Jesus reveals God to be.
Look to Jesus and see:
We don’t repent to be forgiven.
We are forgiven so now we can repent!
For in Christ there is no condemnation.
Look to Jesus and see:
Confession doesn’t change how God sees us. Confession changes how we see God.
For God is light and in God there is no un-Christ-like-ness
So let us therefore come boldly before the throne of grace,
that all we are might be soaked in the shower of God’s tender mercies and find grace to help in our time of need.
• Announcement of Forgiveness by @jarrodmckenna for Steeple Church
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The Steeple Church Podcast is recorded on Wurundjeri land in the east suburbs of Naarm - that you will find on a map as Balwyn in Melbourne, Australia.
We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of these lands, the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation and we pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.
Sovereignty was never ceded.
You can view the full Steeple Church Acknowledgement of Country here.
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