by the Rev Akma Adam
Sermon preached by John Riches – 12 February 2012
Do you not know that in a race all the runners compete, but only one receives the prize? So run that you may obtain it.
It’s not always, possible, taking him out of context, in little snippets, to catch the sustained passion in Paul’s writing. This passage comes at the end of a chapter where Paul defends, defines, lauds even , his freedom. Defiantly he asks those who challenge his authority – wanting to question his status, to place him under the Jerusalem church: ‘Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? ‘ And in those remarks we hear echoes of his earlier remarkable claims that all things are permitted to him; all things are lawful .
But such freedom brings its own costs and demands. ‘For though I am free from all people – or from the law of Moses – I have made myself a slave to all, that I might win the more.’
It’s this tension between radical freedom from all laws, demands, controls on the one hand and the deep inner discipline which rules his life in the gospel as the slave of Christ on the other, which defines Christian existence for Paul.
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Sermon preached on 29 January 2012
by Kelvin Holdsworth
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A prayer for justice:
God of Justice and of love, grant us a vision of our world as your love would make it:
- a world where the weak are protected, and none go hungry or poor;
- a world where the benefits of civilised life are shared, and everyone can enjoy them;
- a world where different races and cultures live in tolerance and mutual respect;
- a world where peace is built with justice, and justice is guided by love
Give us the inspiration and courage to build it, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen
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