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<br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Some years ago,
Mel Gibson made a film called The Passion of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It spared nothing of the blood, guts and
cruelty of the torture and death of Jesus in his last hours.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But of course
that’s only one meaning of passion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus’s
real passion was for the truth, love, peace and justice that characterise the
Kingdom of God, a passion so great that he was willing to suffer death, even
death on the cross rather than compromise the message.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And at the point
of confronting earthly power with the truth, all his followers ran away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>James and John who had wanted the seats on
either side of the throne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even Peter
whose passionate declaration that Jesus was the Messiah proved to be fragile
under pressure. It’s easy to be
passionate when you think you are on the winning side, rather harder when the
chips are down.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The twelve
apostles had two problems, their passion was fragile and they lacked
imagination.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And in this they
were no different to the other religious people of their time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a downtrodden people paying tithes to the
landowners, taxes to the temple and taxes to the Romans, under the yoke of a
cruel oppressor and only one accident away from the debtors prison, they
yearned for change but the only route to change of which they could conceive
was of a Messiah who rode at the head of a revolution which put the oppressors
to flight.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Riding into town
on a donkey, may have faithfully reflected the biblical prophecy of Malachi but
it didn’t really cut it when the Roman Army was tramping up the other side of
the hill to ensure order at the festival.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The apostles
listened to Jesus’s parables, realised he was something different but couldn’t
quite imagine the Kingdom of God he talked about.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And this why they
spend much of their time after Easter locked in the Upper Room, fearful that
their Galilean accents might betray that they are Jesus’s followers and it is
there they retreat after the Ascension, when Jesus leaves them fort the second
time.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Lest you think
I’m being hard on the apostles, let’s remember that Jesus spent his ministry
teaching amongst a God-fearing people, a people that knew their scriptures,
their foundation stories were steadfast in their Jewish faith and attended
synagogue regularly.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Some of them were
so zealous in their faith that they took pride in ensuring every minor point of
the law was interpreted to the last detail and followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know them as the Pharisees.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The problem, as
Jesus pointed out to them on many occasions was not God’s law, but the fact
that they interpreted it and lived it without love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told them wonderful parables about the
Kingdom of God to show how it should be.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">You see the Upper
Room was not just a physical place in Jerusalem but it was a place in people’s
minds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For all the prophesies, for all
the parables, they could just not imagine what a world run and lived in
accordance with God’s love would look like.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We too are
faithful people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We attend church
regularly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of us are kind, decent,
polite and believe in fair play and social order and we believe these to be
God’s way. We give modest amounts to charity and contribute to the food
bank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have transposed our
quintessential British values onto our faith and made them our faith.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But this is not
the Kingdom of God that Jesus came to proclaim.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Do our young
people have visions and our old people dream dreams of what a revolutionary,
radical world lived according to God’s values of truth, love, peace and justice
might look like?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Can we dream as
Martin Luther King did when he proclaimed, “</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up
and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal."</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What would equal
mean?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Would it mean the
list of sterile tick boxes you have to fill in every time you fill in an
official form or job application?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Would it mean
working out how the wealth of the nation is better shared among its citizens?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Is it enough to
treat decently just the people we know or should we be concerned about those
people we don’t know?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What does
treating people equally mean when those fleeing from war are turned away at our
borders, even when they are children?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jesus told us
that the whole of the Law could be summed up in loving God and loving our
neighbour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our country would ensure the
Good Samaritan didn’t even get in the country to upset us with his
revolutionary love.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Can we really dream
of what a world where people were treated equally would look like?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">After a shocking
tragedy in Manchester this week, people laid aside divisions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Muslims knelt beside Jews and Christians and
those of no faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taxi drivers of many
ethnic backgrounds offered concertgoers a free lift home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They acted like neighbours. The challenge is
whether we can continue to act like neighbours without a tragedy.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’m sure that everyone
here tells the truth but are you willing to speak truth to power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you even written to your MP to ask why,
in sixth richest nation in the world, we need food banks or to the county
councillor to ask why we have increasing numbers of people sleeping on our
streets?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Can we have a
vision of what our country would look like if poverty were eliminated and what
sacrifices we would be willing to make to ensure that happens?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We have the most
prosperous retired generation in history while our young people are burdened by
debt, a home of their own only a faint glimmer for many.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When Pilate
worried whether Jesus was claiming to be a king, Jesus said, “</span><span class="text"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">For this I
was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Are we willing to testify to the truth and campaign for it.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Is keeping the law sufficient for there to be justice?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about the prisoners of conscience that Amnesty
International works to support?</span></span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Or the campaigns to protect our environment?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are we for the quiet life or should we be
doing more to ensure that there is a world fit for our grandchildren to
inherit?</span></span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Can we imagine
what a society where we respected God’s creation might look like and what
changes in our lifestyle that might mean?</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Is peace just an
absence of conflict and good social order?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How do we feel about our nation being one of the biggest arms exporters
in the world?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Can we dream, as
those who founded the United Nations in 1945 did, of a world at peace where our
differences are settled in conference chamber?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Are we willing to be poorer as a consequence of the reduced arms sales?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Over the next couple
of weeks, you will bombarded in the media and through the letter box by
politicians selling their wares in a general election which I suspect few of us
wanted and in which most of us will vote without great enthusiasm.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But it gives us
the chance to speak truth to power.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But please start
with the Gospel not the Daily Mail and before you vote, ask whose manifesto
reflects an understanding of “who is my neighbour?”, whose manifesto leads in
the direction of the non-violent peace which Jesus proclaimed, whose manifesto
reflects the principle of Jubilee that the sharing of the wealth of a society
needs to be rebalanced from time to time, at this time perhaps between the old
and young.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If we Christians
were to dare to be passionate and live and voice the revolutionary gospel of
Jesus Christ, to have visions and to dream dreams, to imagine what a world
would look like coloured with God’s values, we might just change the world.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We would be
changed from Upper Room Christians to Pentecost Christians.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Does that scare
you or enthuse you?</span></span></div>
Mikeonormehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598860999947209195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751642053931193427.post-54704231065547790222017-04-23T12:09:00.003-07:002017-04-23T12:10:32.372-07:00From the Upper Room to Pentecost<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Some years ago,
Mel Gibson made a film called The Passion of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It spared nothing of the blood, guts and
cruelty of the torture and death of Jesus in his last hours.</span></span></div>
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<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But of course
that’s only one meaning of passion.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus’s
real passion was for the truth, love, peace and justice that characterise the
Kingdom of God, a passion so great that he was willing to suffer death, even
death on the cross rather than compromise the message.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And at the point
of confronting earthly power with the truth, all his followers ran away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>James and John who had wanted the seats on
either side of the throne.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even Peter
whose passionate declaration that Jesus was the Messiah proved to be fragile
under pressure.</span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s easy to be
passionate when you think you are on the winning side, rather harder when the
chips are down.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The twelve
apostles had two problems, their passion was fragile and they lacked
imagination.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And in this they
were no different to the other religious people of their time.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a downtrodden people paying tithes to the
landowners, taxes to the temple and taxes to the Romans, under the yoke of a
cruel oppressor and only one accident away from the debtors prison, they
yearned for change but the only route to change of which they could conceive
was of a Messiah who rode at the head of a revolution which put the oppressors
to flight.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Riding into town
on a donkey, may have faithfully reflected the biblical prophecy of Malachi but
it didn’t really cut it when the Roman Army was tramping up the other side of
the hill to ensure order at the festival.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The apostles
listened to Jesus’s parables, realised he was something different but couldn’t
quite imagine the Kingdom of God he talked about.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">And this why they
locked themselves in the Upper Room, fearful that their Galilean accents might betray
that they are Jesus’s followers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Let’s remember that Jesus spent his ministry
teaching amongst a God-fearing people, a people that knew their scriptures,
their foundation stories were steadfast in their Jewish faith and attended
synagogue regularly.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Some of them were
so zealous in their faith that they took pride in ensuring every minor point of
the law was interpreted to the last detail and followed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We know them as the Pharisees.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The problem, as
Jesus pointed out to them on many occasions was not God’s law, but the fact
that they interpreted it and lived it without love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He told them wonderful parables about the
Kingdom of God to show how it should be.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The Upper
Room was not just a physical place in Jerusalem but it was, and is, a place in people’s
minds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For all the prophesies, for all
the parables, the apostles could just not imagine what a world run and lived in
accordance with God’s love would look like.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We too are
faithful people.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We attend church
regularly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of us are kind, decent,
polite and believe in fair play and social order and we believe these to be
God’s way. We give modest amounts to charity and contribute to the food
bank.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We have transposed our
quintessential British values onto our faith and made them our faith.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But this is not
the Kingdom of God that Jesus came to proclaim.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Do our young
people have visions and our old people dream dreams of what a revolutionary,
radical world lived according to God’s values of truth, love, peace and justice
might look like?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Can we dream as
Martin Luther King did when he proclaimed, “</span><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up
and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be
self-evident, that all men are created equal."</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What would equal
mean?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Would it mean the
list of sterile tick boxes you have to fill in every time you fill in an
official form or job application?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Would it mean
working out how the wealth of the nation is better shared among its citizens?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Is it enough to
treat decently just the people we know or should we be concerned about those
people we don’t know?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What does
treating people equally mean when those fleeing from war are turned away at our
borders, even when they are children?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Jesus told us
that the whole of the Law could be summed up in loving God and loving our
neighbour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our country would ensure the
Good Samaritan didn’t even get in the country to upset us with his
revolutionary love.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Can we really dream
of what a world where people were treated equally would look like?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">I’m sure that everyone
here tells the truth but are you willing to speak truth to power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you even written to your MP to ask why,
in sixth richest nation in the world, we need food banks or to the county
councillor to ask why we have increasing numbers of people sleeping on our
streets?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Can we have a
vision of what our country would look like if poverty were eliminated and what
sacrifices we would be willing to make to ensure that happens?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">When Pilate
worried whether Jesus was claiming to be a king, Jesus said, “</span><span class="text"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">For this I
was born, and for this I came into the world, to testify to the truth.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Is keeping the law sufficient for there to be justice?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about the prisoners of conscience that
Amnesty International works to support?</span></span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span class="text"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt;">Or the campaigns to protect our environment?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Are we for the quiet life or should we be
doing more to ensure that there is a world fit for our grandchildren to
inherit?</span></span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Can we imagine
what a society where we respected God’s creation might look like and what
changes in our lifestyle that might mean?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Is peace just an
absence of conflict and good social order?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>How do we feel about our nation being one of the biggest arms exporters
in the world?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Can we dream, as
those who founded the United Nations in 1945 did, of a world at peace where our
differences are settled in conference chamber?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Are we willing to be poorer as a consequence of the reduced arms sales?</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Over the next few
weeks, we will bombarded in the media and through the letter box by
politicians selling their wares in a general election which I suspect few of us
wanted and in which most of us will vote without great enthusiasm.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">But it gives us
the chance to speak truth to power.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">If we Christians
were to dare to be passionate and live and voice the revolutionary gospel of
Jesus Christ, to have visions and to dream dreams, to imagine what a world
would look like coloured with God’s values, we might just change the
world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">We would be
changed from Upper Room Christians to Pentecost Christians.</span></span></div>
<div class="mahsermon">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">
</span><br />
<div class="mahsermon">
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 16.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Does that scare
you or enthuse you?</span></span></div>
Mikeonormehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598860999947209195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751642053931193427.post-17739195784379889512016-11-06T14:17:00.002-08:002016-11-06T14:17:49.272-08:00Where is "good news for the poor"?<div class="_5pbx userContent" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" id="js_71">
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">Our
church councils and committees are taken up with many things but, in
the light of what is happening in our society, should not these words
from Luke 4, Jesus' mission statement, be at the top of our agenda.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"> “The Spirit of the Lord is on me,<br /> because he has anointed me<br /> to proclaim good news to the poor.<br /> He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners<br /> and recovery of sight for the blind,<br /> to set the oppressed free,<br /> to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.” (Luke 4.18-19)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;"><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">In response to the Ken Loach film, "I, Daniel Blake", <i>Social Work Tutor </i>has penned these powerful words.</span><br />
<br />
<a href="http://socialworktutor.com/i-daniel-blake-daily-reality-social-workers-face/">http://socialworktutor.com/i-daniel-blake-daily-reality-social-workers-face/</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS",sans-serif;">How long can we use most of our resources on maintaining church fabrics and most of our energies on maintaining the minutiae of church life and ignore the cries of the poor and the oppressed? </span></div>
Mikeonormehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598860999947209195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751642053931193427.post-44861890793843420252016-05-19T03:54:00.000-07:002016-05-19T03:55:10.492-07:00European Referendum<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Whilst Llandudno </span>CYTÛN</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> was happy to sponsor Welsh Election hustings, it has opted not to put on a European Referendum debate because of the difficulty in in obtaining honest, factual information as opposed to the assertions of the IN and OUT camps.</span><br />
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<br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">An article in today's Daily Mail illustrates the problem. There's no disguising the fact that the Mail is in favour of Brexit in the European Referendum and there are no lengths to which it will not go to support its case.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">In today's paper, it asserts that a European Court judgement is preventing British Security Services from denying entry to known terrorist supects. <a href="http://ow.ly/q9xf300mpkO">http://ow.ly/q9xf300mpkO</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">This is supposedly supported by court papers and a junior Justice Minister Dominic Raab. It's worrying when a Justice Minister either doesn't know the law or deliberately misinterprets it for political purposes.</span><br />
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We
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The
supreme judicial authority in the UK is the Supreme Court in London.
It has to take account of European Court rulings but it does not have to
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This excellent article from Bella Sankey, the Director of Policy at Liberty, refers. <a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?hl=en-GB&q=http://ow.ly/67Dz300mnXo&source=gmail&ust=1463739197816000&usg=AFQjCNG6Nm5MgeUEK3N1KUCxOSILCdW_2g" href="http://ow.ly/67Dz300mnXo" target="_blank">http://ow.ly/67Dz300mnXo</a> Personally I'd prefer Liberty to the Daily Mail as an authority. </div>
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quote the relevant paragraph but the whole article is worth reading by
those interested in the human rights debate as well as the European
Referendum one.<br />
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"Under the HRA, Britain's courts
are only required to "take account" of ECtHR judgments, not follow them.
British courts regularly depart from Strasbourg jurisprudence to take
account of UK laws, traditions and customs, and the Supreme Court is
already the ultimate arbiter of human rights cases here. In fact, when
the Human Rights Bill was passing through Parliament (in 1998), the Conservatives
tried to amend it to say British Courts should be bound by Strasbourg - a
proposal rejected by Parliament."</div>
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Back to the European Referendum. When I lectured undergraduates, they were always very keen to write questionnaires to support their research, so it was incumbent on me to point out some of the pitfalls they might want to avoid. One sample question I tried out on them was "Is 50 billion pounds per year enough, or too little to spend on the NHS?" One of the difficulties with this question is that most of us don't have the information or knowledge to know whether £50 billion is enough. The European Referendum debate poses many questions on which we simply don't have enough information. Figures about the economic cost/benefit of IN or OUT can be conjured up to prove anything.</div>
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There are however some questions we might consider:</div>
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The original EU of 6 nations, not including the UK, was formed because the countries involved had been involved in the two largest wars in history in the first half of the 20th century. It was felt that those, who were bound together by trade and some common rules, were far less likely to go to war against each other in the future. Is this principle still an important one?</div>
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Do we start from the position that the other peoples of Europe are our neighbours or that they are foreigners/potential unwanted immigrants?</div>
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Can we draw up a list of what things we think ought to unite us as Europeans and compare them with what things we think divide us?</div>
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If UK voters vote OUT, how does the UK set about establishing relations with those countries nearest to us whom we have just rejected?</div>
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If UK voters vote IN. how might we set about reforming the EU so that it is more responsive to the ordinary citizen, how might we make it more democratic?</div>
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And - if you were wondering - the current NHS annual budget is about £116.4 million ( it isn't clear whether that includes Wales or not). From the service you receive, do you think that is enough?</div>
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Every blessing as you ponder your vote in the referendum,</div>
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Mike Harrison</div>
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Mikeonormehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598860999947209195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751642053931193427.post-24378758493200773572016-05-03T09:14:00.002-07:002016-05-03T09:15:21.978-07:00Elections and Referendums<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We are now in the season of elections and referendums.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">We enjoyed a good hustings in Llandudno on 20th April where candidates from four parties answered questions. It is easy to be cynical about politicians but I have the highest respect for many of those stading for public office. We shouldn't let headlines about "bad apples" distract us from the long hours of public service offered on our behalf.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Llandudno </span>CYTÛN</span><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"> does not offer direction on which party to vote for but it does encourage everyone to vote. Anyone who has seen the recent film "Sufragette" will realise that many made great sacrifices so that we could vote.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Christians should test the promises and records of the parties against strong biblical principles. The Bible has much to say about how the poor, the outcast, the stranger and foreigner should be treated. There are themes about our stewardship of God's creation and principles of how we should act for the common good. How do the records, as well as the pledges, of the parties stack up up in comparison?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Remember that we are voting for a <b>WELSH</b> Assembly. Neither David Cameron nor Jeremy Corbyn are candidates in this election whatever the papers or some campaign leaflets may imply.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Resources can be found here:</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">Remember that in the Welsh Assembly Elections, each voter has two votes. The first is for a constituency candidate. The second is for a party and may be cast for a different party to the first vote. Indeed there are very good reasons for considering a different second vote depending of your preferences. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">At the same time as the Welsh Assembly Elections, there is a parallel election for a Police Commissioner for North Wales. The public can be forgiven for asking who the candidates are and what they are offering. There is very little information in the public domain.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 12pt;">On 24th June, there is a Referendum on Britain's membership of Europe. The campaign so far has been disappointing with more bluster than fact. It is good therefore the Joint Public Issues Team of The Methodist Church, The Baptist Union and the United Reformed Church have produced some excellent resources which can be found here <a href="http://ow.ly/4nnjxD">http://ow.ly/4nnjxD </a></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">If each voter thinks carefully and compassionately and remembers Jesus's injunction to love their neighbour, our democracy might produce a ray of hope.</span></span>Mikeonormehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598860999947209195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751642053931193427.post-83098118337457951642016-03-26T11:48:00.003-07:002016-03-26T11:51:01.351-07:00Good Friday Reflections<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Around a hundred people walked through Llandudno's Mistyn Street for the Annual Walk of Witness on Good Friday culminating in an open air service outside Holy Trinity Parish Church.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">The prayers were taken from David Rhodes' reflections in "It Wasn't the Nails" published by Wild Goose Publications in 2015.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-bidi-language: hi; mso-fareast-language: zh-CN; mso-ligatures: none;">Asylum seekers Lord. It’s so easy to think of asylum seekers (when we think of them at all) as Other. As foreign, different in colour and perhaps religion. We think of them as distant. We are tempted to think of them coming to ‘our’ country. Yes, there’s distance and a feeling of separation in the idea of asylum. But help us, Lord, to remember that, at the hour of our own death, we ourselves will be asylum seekers. Hoping and praying for sanctuary and a loving welcome with you in heaven. Let our own mortality help us to be one with those who seek asylum in Britain today. And let us offer them gladly the hospitality of love that is your gift to us all. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Debt: Why did we do it, Lord? Rewrite your prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You said “cancel our debts”, but we preferred “forgive us our trespasses”, - which sounds a lot more dignified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moderate. Respectable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you, it seems, said debts – and you said it to people experiencing crushing debt. Debt that brought dishonour, destitution, slavery and death. We prefer the calm of organised religion, but your focus was on organised greed and oppression. Debt is still with us today. Help us, Lord, to remember that debt and the struggle for justice are at the heart of our spirituality. And at the heart of Your Prayer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-bidi-language: hi; mso-fareast-language: zh-CN; mso-ligatures: none;">Food banks: OK, Lord, we’ve got it now. Money banks are bad, food banks are good. And, it has to be said, food banks certainly help people: lots of hungry people. They’re a symbol of caring and compassion. So, why didn’t you set up food banks, Lord? Or walk-</span>in <span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-bidi-language: hi; mso-fareast-language: zh-CN; mso-ligatures: none;">clinics, come to that? There were vast numbers of hungry and sick people in first-century Palestine. It’s only very gradually we realise your miracles were a sign not a solution. Your solution was an end to injustice and oppression. But that threatened the system: the system operated by the rich and powerful. Looking back on all that, it’s clear that the Cross was inevitable. But no one is likely to get crucified for running a food bank. Which should make us think. Maybe we need to go beyond the Good Samaritan, as you did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-bidi-language: hi; mso-fareast-language: zh-CN; mso-ligatures: none;">The homeless: Lord, there’s a children’s game of skimming flat pebbles across a lake: watching them bounce along its surface. Maybe you played the game as a child at the Sea of Galilee. The trouble is, Lord, we play that game with the Gospel. We skim over it. You said ‘the son of man has nowhere to lay his head’. We read those familiar words, but we don’t want to let them sink in. We don’t really take in the fact that you were often homeless: no shelter, no bed, no toilet paper. You were alongside the homeless. And they, in turn, gave you loyalty and love. Today you meet us among the homeless. And in that encounter, we discover the depth of your love – for them and for ourselves. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-bidi-language: hi; mso-fareast-language: zh-CN; mso-ligatures: none;">The living wage: They were a great idea, Lord. Your parables. Simple stories with simple messages. But it seems we still manage to get them wrong. The labourers in the vineyard, for example. Was that about a generous landowner? An image of God himself? Or was it about exploitation: a rich man paying starvation wages to zero-hours labourers? And then, on top of that, setting them at each other’s throats? Was there a hard edge to your story? One that the poor and those turned off their land would have recognised? You came that we may have life. All of us. That means justice, respect and a ‘living’ wage. A life-giving wage. In a world of plenty, anything less than that is an injustice. A denial of your promise. God’s promise. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-bidi-language: hi; mso-fareast-language: zh-CN; mso-ligatures: none;">Welfare and work: Lord, why do so many people snigger at the mention of health and safety? Isn’t that exactly what we wish for our loved ones? We care about their well-being. Their welfare. That’s what love means, isn’t it? So how is it that ‘welfare’ has become such a dirty word in the tabloids and in the mouths of so many politicians? An insult. A judgement. An expression of sneering contempt. But you were born into the world because of the Father’s concern for our welfare. Our well-being. Our shalom. <br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">Debt: Why did we do it, Lord? Rewrite your prayer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You said “cancel our debts”, but we preferred “forgive us our trespasses”, - which sounds a lot more dignified.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Moderate. Respectable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But you, it seems, said debts – and you said it to people experiencing crushing debt. Debt that brought dishonour, destitution, slavery and death. We prefer the calm of organised religion, but your focus was on organised greed and oppression. Debt is still with us today. Help us, Lord, to remember that debt and the struggle for justice are at the heart of our spirituality. And at the heart of Your Prayer. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-bidi-language: hi; mso-fareast-language: zh-CN; mso-ligatures: none;">Food banks: OK, Lord, we’ve got it now. Money banks are bad, food banks are good. And, it has to be said, food banks certainly help people: lots of hungry people. They’re a symbol of caring and compassion. So, why didn’t you set up food banks, Lord? Or walk-</span>in <span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-bidi-language: hi; mso-fareast-language: zh-CN; mso-ligatures: none;">clinics, come to that? There were vast numbers of hungry and sick people in first-century Palestine. It’s only very gradually we realise your miracles were a sign not a solution. Your solution was an end to injustice and oppression. But that threatened the system: the system operated by the rich and powerful. Looking back on all that, it’s clear that the Cross was inevitable. But no one is likely to get crucified for running a food bank. Which should make us think. Maybe we need to go beyond the Good Samaritan, as you did.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><span lang="en-US" style="language: en-US; mso-ansi-language: en-US; mso-bidi-language: hi; mso-fareast-language: zh-CN; mso-ligatures: none;">The homeless: Lord, there’s a children’s game of skimming flat pebbles across a lake: watching them bounce along its surface. Maybe you played the game as a child at the Sea of Galilee. The trouble is, Lord, we play that game with the Gospel. We skim over it. You said ‘the son of man has nowhere to lay his head’. We read those familiar words, but we don’t want to let them sink in. We don’t really take in the fact that you were often homeless: no shelter, no bed, no toilet paper. You were alongside the homeless. And they, in turn, gave you loyalty and love. Today you meet us among the homeless. And in that encounter, we discover the depth of your love – for them and for ourselves. </span></span></div>
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Lord, let us find useful, meaningful work as we can, but let us always seek the welfare, the health and the safety, of our neighbour. Even of our politicians. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sermon at St. David's Methodist Church, Craig-y-Don on Poverty Sunday, <br />7th February 2016. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Readings :</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“The Lord has anointed me to bring good news to the poor.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The words of the prophet Isaiah later claimed
by Jesus as his own mission statement.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wonder what words come to mind when you think about “the
poor”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps “scroungers” or
“foodbanks” or “homeless” or “Africa”.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It may be harder to bring to mind a person you know who is poor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You might like to think why that is.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Food was constantly on my mind when I worked in Kenya.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Often we were working so hard that there
wasn’t time to eat anything between breakfast at 7am and a late evening meal at
around 9pm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And at two meals a day I was
better off than many of the people amongst whom I was living.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As I walked down the road – it was about a mile to the
office and another half mile to our care centre, there were shack-like stalls
and even a few people sat on the ground with a couple of bags of vegetables,
desperately hoping that they would sell them before the end of the day, so that
they could buy a few essentials themselves, perhaps charcoal to cook or a
little cooking oil.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">At the end of the street were the boda-boda, bicycle taxis –
a cushion across the back luggage rack and a couple of spikes to put your feet
on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>10p anywhere in town.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were far more boda-boda than there were
customers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And I was taking my life in
my hands if I took one as they weaved in and out of the chaotic Thika
traffic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I didn’t, the rider might
not eat tonight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I wouldn’t have gone far beyond the end of the street before
I met one of the street boys, boys whose families could no longer feed them and
had sent them to the town to beg. He would say quite plainly, “My stomach is
empty.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He probably hadn’t eaten for
three or four days. And the hard thing was to know that I if I offered food it
would only keep him on the streets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
had to say, “Come to our centre and we’ll feed you there.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When I turned round I bumped into a young man carrying a
large plastic sack of apples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Apples
were a fairly rare commodity in Kenya, only a few places are cool enough to
grow them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being a rich westerner I
could buy five at 3 pence each.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had to concentrate as I walked along the uneven
pavement.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Partly out of wariness of
pickpockets – our deputy manager had been hijacked a few yards outside the bank
despite the armed guards on the bank step.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Partly to deal with a huge variety of hawkers and shoe-shiners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Partly because I might trip over the beggars,
many of them blind and severely disabled, who littered the pavements.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A little further, I passed through the market.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The stalls were heaving with some of the best
fruit and veg you could buy anywhere.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
was lucky, I could afford it – indeed it seemed ludicrously cheap to me – most
of the locals couldn’t.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Finally, I got to our office block, past the armed guard, up
to the fourth floor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>On the third floor
I would greet Esther who ran a kiosk, photocopying for the rest of the building
and making a living selling bottles of soda pop to the office dwellers.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">A little later, I would walk down to the interim care
centre.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If I pulled a sweet out of my
pocket, I would be buried under a pile of twenty or more boys pushing and
shoving, desperate to make sure they had one.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Lunch took four hours to cook at the care centre – a
charcoal fire – one big pot.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The budget
didn’t run to much with thirty to feed and we had to be careful not make things
too different from the homes to which we wanted the boys to return.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So it was ugali again as it was the day
before, would be the next day and so on for the rest of the week. Ugali is
maize meal with a little cabbage in it.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But in some ways the Kenyan street boys were lucky.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s a warm climate and life happens in the
public spaces.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The poor can be
seen.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rich and poor rub shoulders in
the street.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The solutions are relatively
clear.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We provided food, intensive
rehabilitation, family support, education and work training.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The success rate was as high as 90%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In three years, the number of street boys was
reduced from 450 to a handful.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Not so here. Many of our poor in Britain live their lives
eking out an existence hidden from the public gaze.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here we live our lives mostly in
private.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The rich and poor rarely meet. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Politicians wrangle over solutions and are
often the cause of the problems.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Debates about poverty very often descend into a mass of
statistics and prejudices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Child
Poverty Action Group claims that 3.7 million children, about 30% of all
children live in poverty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The government
has a lower figure of around 20%.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Whichever one you take it seems a very large number.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But rather than come alongside the poor to
find solutions, politicians debate whether the large increase in the number of
foodbanks been caused by the availability of free food or by a vast increase in
those who cannot make ends meet?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">But the numbers and the prejudices obscure the people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So why are the poor so difficult to see in Conwy? On the tax credit map, Conwy is in the top 10% of local
authorities in the UK for tax credit claimants, far higher than Rhyl or the
North East of England. Conwy’s poor are invisible because they are at work.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hands up if you have been out to a local restaurant in the
last six months.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hands up if you have bought a bargain in a local shop.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Hands up if you have had a coffee with a friends in a local
café or hotel.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I’ve done these things too.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">The poor are working in our hotels and cafés, supermarkets
and pound stores, often part-time, seasonal and on zero hours contracts. Every time we get a good value meal, a shop bargain or while
away our time over coffee are we providing custom so that others have jobs or
colluding in their poverty?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I don’t know the solution although I do think the Living
Wage campaign is important.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paying
people decent wages puts the power of choice, the power to alter one’s
conditions of life into people’s hands.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">When Jesus read Isaiah’s passage, he read from the Septuagint version, “I’ve been anointed
to bring sight to the blind.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Perhaps we need to look a bit harder for solutions.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We can start by looking through the eyes of the Magnificat.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>My beloved has <span style="color: red;">noticed</span> me
and loved me,<br />
a nobody from among the <span style="color: red;">powerless</span> poor.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Important though money and food are, the starting point here
is recognition and power.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The negative is
to recognise that one of the key facets of being poor is to be powerless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others make judgements about you and take
decisions about you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Well not you
exactly, because if are poor, you are faceless.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>You are not recognised.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are a
label, scrounger, benefits claimant etc.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">But all that greed,
all that exercise of power at others expanse is vanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Because in God’s kingdom: </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The greedy who hold onto their wealth will see it all
crumble and vanish.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b>The dispossessed on the scrapheap will be empowered one
with another.</b></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If we are working to
bring God’s kingdom a little closer here on earth, we are being asked to do
more than replenish the foodbanks, worthy though that is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are being asked to seek out and notice the
poor, to recognise the image of God in them and to challenge the power
structures so that they are freed from the captivity of poverty.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">What most of our street boys wanted and most of the poor
here want most is love, care, respect and empowerment.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Some of you, I know, were at the mosque in Llandudno
Junction yesterday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In conversation with
one of the elders, he mentioned that some Muslims thought that they were good
Muslims if they could recite the 99 names of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But he said, if you call God the all merciful,
you are required to show mercy, if you call God the all-forgiving, you are
required to forgive.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If we follow Jesus’ injunction to love our neighbour and
understand the recognising God in the other means lifting them up, empowering
them, food and a fairer society will follow as day follows night.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">May God bless you in all you do.</span></span></div>
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Mikeonormehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598860999947209195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751642053931193427.post-59722586066107525892016-02-06T08:24:00.001-08:002016-02-06T08:25:49.649-08:00Syria Day at Llandudno Junction Mosque<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">I've had an excellent day at the Llandudno Mosque. A warm welcome and lavish hospitality. Excellent presentations fron the Syria Relief <cite class="_Rm"><a href="https://www.syriarelief.org.uk/">https://www.<b>syriarelief</b>.org.uk/</a></cite> who are still managing to support 43 Syrian Schools educating 12,000 children and 5 hospitals in Aleppo because they are using Syrian teachers and doctors on the ground.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">It was a shame to discover the last CYTUN link they could remember was with Nick Sissons about 8 years ago. This is surely a time when Christians and Muslims ought to be listening to each other and understanding each other's experiences.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">With the current concerns we have about those going hungry in this country, it was also a matter of regret that I could offer a contact who would take the vat of tasty chicken biryani left at the end of the function.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">There are challenges here for us all.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;"><cite class="_Rm"><a href="https://www.syriarelief.org.uk/"></a></cite></span>Mikeonormehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14598860999947209195noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4751642053931193427.post-9575987484222543962016-01-27T13:02:00.001-08:002016-01-27T13:06:25.048-08:00Unity in Mission<div class="entry-content">
<b><u>24<sup>th</sup> January 2016</u></b> <b><u>Christian Unity Service</u></b> <b><u>Holy Trinity, Llandudno</u></b><br />
Readings:<br />
<i>OT Isaiah 52.7-9</i><br />
<i>Gospel Luke 24 13-36</i><br />
<br />
We’re in the Epiphany season, a season of signs and revelations.<br />
<br />
First
there were three travellers from the East who discerned in their
astrological charts, a very special conjunction, only to find the hand
of God was at work.<br />
<br />
Then Jesus came up from the waters of Baptism
to hear a voice from heaven and see with absolute clarity what his
mission was to be.<br />
<br />
Last week, the miracle at Cana which revealed Jesus to his disciples in a way which caused them to believe.<br />
In
our own lives, sometimes a number of elements in life come together in a
way that, on reflection, we can see the hand of God at work. Tonight
I’ve been called to start a new journey with churches together. A
little like Abraham, I’m a little surprised to receive this call so late
in life. But then today, at the point of setting off on my way, I
find that the readings for the day are two of those with I identify most
closely.<br />
<br />
This morning, in the Common Lectionary, we had Jesus’s Mission Statement from Luke, Ch.4:<br />
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“The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,<br />
because he has anointed me<br />
to bring good news to the poor.<br />
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives<br />
and recovery of sight to the blind,<br />
to let the oppressed go free,<br />
to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour.”</div>
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The
recently baptised Jesus has just been on an intensive training course
in the desert. The gospel story tells that he faces three temptations to
go the wrong way.<br />
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He has realised he is going to have to give up
the day job as a carpenter and undertake an unpaid itinerant ministry,
where he will not know where the next meal is coming from and where he
will not know where he is going to lay his head. <br />
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It would be
easy in these circumstances to be held back by insecurity. Thus the
temptation to turn bread into stones is not just a response to his
immediate situation, it prefigures the nature of his daily life for the
future. Can he trust other people to respond, support, feed him and
take him in for the night?<br />
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Second, Jesus might be held back by
concern about taking up power represented by the offer of the kingdoms
of the world. Not everyone wants to be a king. Conversely, he might be
tempted by the shortcut of fulfilling the historical expectations of a
Messiah to lead a revolution. There were plenty of people yearning to
overthrow the yoke of the Romans. But that path leads to the power of
oppression. The popular Maccabean revolution, still a recent memory for
the Jews of Jesus’ time, had led directly to Herod. It’s this
oppressive power that we often think of as power. We think of the
droves of political figures, who started off with good intentions only
to have them corrupted when they held power. <br />
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In contrast, true
power is power built in relationship, which entails taking the risk of
getting involved and challenging the oppressive power of the people who
currently run the world. It means giving back to the poor and the
hungry and the prisoner the voice which has been taken away from them.
It means both leading such people and enabling their God-given power to
be released.<br />
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Third, Jesus might be held back by fear of his own
spiritual potential as Nelson Mandela suggested many of us are. This is
represented in the story by the temptation to jump off the temple. It
would be easy to gain a following by doing the magic tricks of which a
divine being is capable.<br />
<br />
In Mark’s account, when Jesus does go
out into the mission field he spends a great deal of time telling the
recipients of his miracles not to tell others what he has done for fear
of the magic obscuring the message. <br />
And then Jesus stands up in the
synagogue and reinterprets Isaiah 61 as his mission statement. In just
50 words he proclaims a message of good news to the poor and a challenge
to those who are spiritually blind, those who are going the wrong way.<br />
<br />
I wonder what you were talking about on the <b>way</b> here tonight.<br />
<br />
Because
an understanding of “the way” is central to the insights of the early
church and particularly to gospels of Mark and Luke.<br />
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Tonight’s second reading told us the story of two disciples on their <b>way</b>
from Jerusalem to Emmaus. Many explorers and archaeologists have
searched fruitlessly for Emmaus. I often wonder why, because like the
two disciples mentioned in today’s reading from Luke’s gospel, they’re
facing in the wrong direction.<br />
<br />
The English language sometimes has
too many words and the fact that our translators can translate the
single Greek word οδός (ô(r)thos) as road, path, route and journey
obscures the key point the evangelists were trying to make. Jesus is
the way. Jesus shows us the way. We are followers of his way.<br />
<br />
We can interpret <b>The Way</b> as a physical journey or as a journey of spiritual exploration and discipling, internalising Jesus’ teaching in our lives.<br />
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For
Luke, the place of salvation is Jerusalem. His gospel starts there and
finishes there. It is the place where, through the death of Jesus
Christ, God redeems his people as he redeemed the Israelites from
slavery in the Exodus. God literally buys our freedom.<br />
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The two disciples, Cleopas, and probably his wife, are on their <b>way</b> from Jerusalem to Emmaus. <b>They’re</b> going the wrong way. Their own <b>way</b>.<br />
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Like
many of us, they are rooted people. We are rooted in our homes, our
families and even our church. These are places of comfort, safety and
sustenance. When we’ve been on holiday, we instinctively relax as we
turn the corner back to the familiar of home. To become homeless, to
become a refugee or asylum seeker, torn from home, is regarded as a
tragedy.<br />
<br />
After all the disruption of the previous days where
their lives and hopes had been torn apart, Cleopas and his wife are
returning to where they feel safe, home. They had regarded Jesus as a
prophet, and more than a prophet. God’s power had been present with him
in his miracles and his teaching, and they couldn’t doubt that this was
the man of God’s choice. He was the one who would redeem Israel.
That’s why the crucifixion was so devastating. It wasn’t just that
Jesus had been the bearer of their hopes and he was now dead and gone.
If Jesus had been the one to redeem Israel, he should have been
defeating the pagans not dying at their hands!<br />
Cleopas’ puzzled statement only needs the slightest twist to turn it into a joyful statement of early Christian faith. <i>“They crucified him - but we had hoped he would redeem Israel” </i>would shortly become: <i>“They crucified him and that was how he did redeem Israel.” </i><br />
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But
before they could begin to understand, they had to be prepared. The
fact that they couldn’t recognise Jesus seems to have gone hand in hand
with the fact that they couldn’t recognise the events that had just
happened as the story of God’s redemption.<br />
<br />
They had been
expecting God to redeem Israel from suffering but instead they were
presented with a story of how God redeemed through suffering; through in
particular the suffering which would be taken upon himself by Israel’s
representative, the Messiah.<br />
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When Luke says that Jesus
interpreted to them all the things about himself, throughout the Bible,
he doesn’t mean that Jesus collected a few, or even a few dozen,
isolated texts, verses chosen at random. He means that the whole story
from Genesis to Chronicles pointed to a fulfilment which could only be
found when God’s anointed took Israel’s suffering, and hence the world’s
suffering, onto himself, died under its weight, and rose again as the
beginning of God’s new creation, God’s people. This is what had to
happen - and now it just had.<br />
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Perhaps Luke is saying that we can
only know Jesus, can only recognise him in any sense, when we learn to
see him within the true story of God and the world.<br />
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At the end of
the story, Cleopas and his wife turn around and start back to
Jerusalem, the icon of salvation, as we are all called to repent, turn
around and follow the right <b>way.</b><br />
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When Mr & Mrs. Cleopas reach the 11 in the upper room in Jerusalem, Jesus appears again and soon the physical <b>way </b>that
the disciples take will take them all over the known world. They will
be uprooted, often not knowing where their next meal or bed will come
from. Their witness will often result in martyrdom as they follow the <b>way </b>of
the cross. But before the end of the story, before recognition, Mr.
& Mrs Cleopas will invite Jesus in to stay in their humble abode.<br />
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Think of the first meal related in the Bible:<br />
<br />
“The
woman took some of the fruit and ate it; she gave it to her husband and
he ate it; then the eyes of both of them were opened.” Gen. 3.6-7<br />
<br />
This
was the beginning of the woes that had come upon the human race. Death
itself was traced to that moment of rebellion. The whole of creation
was subjected to decay, futility and sorrow.<br />
<br />
Now Luke, echoing that story, describes the first meal of the new creation:<br />
“He took bread, blessed it, broke it, and gave it to them; then they eyes of both of them were opened.” Luke 24.31<br />
<br />
Jesus
usurps the right of the head of the household to bless the bread and
his wife to break and distribute it. Cleopas and his wife discover that
the long curse has been broken. Death itself has been defeated. God’s
new creation, brimming with <b>life</b> and joy and new possibility, has burst upon the world of decay and sorrow.<br />
Luke
has told the story in such a way as to help us live it ourselves. We
too are invited to listen to the exposition of the Bible, to have our
hearts burning within us as fresh <b>truth</b> comes out of the old pages and sets us on fire.<br />
<br />
This
will happen as we learn to think through the story of God and the
world, Israel and Jesus, not in the way our various cultures try to make
us think, but in the way God himself has sketched out.<br />
So too, we
are invited to know Jesus in the breaking of bread. Luke intends that
his readers should see this simple meal pointing forwards to the
breaking of bread which quickly became the central symbolic action of
Jesus’ people sustaining them on the <b>way.</b><br />
<br />
Scripture and
sacrament, word and meal are joined tightly together. Take scripture
away and the sacrament becomes a piece of magic. Take the sacrament
away and scripture becomes an intellectual or emotional exercise. Put
them together and you have the centre of Christian living as Luke
understood it.<br />
As you go on your way tonight, travel on <b>the</b> <b>way</b>,
talk about the scriptures together as they did on the road to Emmaus,
break bread together, always knowing there is one more person at the
table, and you will find that there is only one way and only one
invitation.<br />
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Along the way, announce the good news in word and
deed to those who are poor and do not be afraid to challenge those in
power who are blind to the truth. And pray for me a fellow traveller.<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">This sermon takes inspiration and a few paragraphs from Tom Wright’s “Luke for Everyone” and insights from Dennis McBrid</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 8.0pt;">e’s </span></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">“Emmaus, the gracious visit of God according to Luke.”</span></i></div>
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