Life Together

Life Together May they be for us the very essence of the living Christ in our midst. We are also a bilingual - intercultural community. God’s dream here and now.

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Open our eyes to the mystery of Christ’s presence in these ordinary things in these our ordinary lives. St Johns Bucklands Beach

We are a cooperating parish- Anglican, Presbyterian and Methodist. We cherish our diversity (we aim at being gospel to all people). Our diversity offers us a wonderful opportunity to explore fresh ways of proc

laiming Jesus to a world that God so desperately loves. We have a sense that being a diverse community, we are being called to become people who listen well and respond to the needs of our neighbourhood without judgment or coercion. Diversity is, after all, a foretaste of heaven. We don’t just tolerate our differences, nor do we just accept our differences, but we appreciate our differences for the richness that it brings to our community. Therefore, we pursue differences as a way of justice- of practicing reconciliation that will address worldly wrongs. Because we believe “the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption, the end is the creation of the beloved community.”

In sum, we are becoming a community of people who are following Jesus and learning to live in the rhythms of His grace.

19/04/2025

“Why do you look for the living among the dead? Is the question being asked this Easter Morning. And the women said it was the last place we saw his body. Some of us would say it was the last place we were betrayed. Divorced. Disappointed. It was the last place we were afraid and buried our trauma and our hearts with it. Again, we are asked why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here; he has risen!”

Whatever acclamations we cry out on Easter Sunday must begin with a willingness to linger in the garden, desolate and alone, listening for the sound of our names, spoken back to us in love. For our testimonies to ring true, they must originate in radical, intimate encounter. The question is not, why should other people believe? But rather why do you believe? Why is the resurrection of Jesus essential to you? What does Christ rising look like in your life?.”

Happy Easter!

17/04/2025

“On Good Friday, God in Jesus refused to exclude anything or anyone. In God there is no exclusionary impulse. The genius of Christianity is not that it eliminates the negative but that it incorporates it in its life. In Jesus what we see is God going to the edge, to the bottom, we see God kissing the lepers, we see God loving the poor and healing the woman with the issue of blood. On Good Friday what we ultimately have is not a religion of exclusion, but a religion that includes everything and everyone. And that is Good News, one that calls us to tarry awhile for together.”

13/04/2025

“Beit Ya’akov, however, amplifies the concept: God accepts human ways to worship, which place individuality and free will at the center. But from a mystical viewpoint, this is an illusion, or a concept tailored to human thinking: there is only God and the divine energy that moves all things. And yet God chooses to be satisfied, seduced, by the illusion of human consciousness and free will. He thus model for man a similar humility, accepting the restricted roles of conscious life.”

~ The Murmuring Deep

20/03/2025

“Nothing that we despise in the other man is entirely absent from ourselves. We often expect from others more that we are willing to do ourselves. Why have we hitherto thought so intemperately about man and his frailty and temptability? We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”

~ Letters & Papers from Prison
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

20/03/2025

" The fact that the fool is often stubborn must not mislead us into thinking that he is independent. One feels in fact, when talking to him, that one is dealing, not with the man himself, but with slogans, catchwords, and the like, which have taken hold of him. He is under a spell, he is blinded, his very nature is being misused and exploited. Having thus become a passive instrument, the fool will be capable of any evil and at the same time incapable of seeing that it is evil. Here lies the danger of a diabolical exploitation that can do irreparable damage to human beings.

But at this point it is quite clear, too, that folly can be overcome, not by instruction, but only by an act of liberation; and so we have come to terms with the fact that in the great majority of cases inward liberation must be preceded by outward liberation, and that until that has taken place, we may as well abandon all attempts to convince the fool."

~ Letters & Papers from Prison
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

04/03/2025

“ Love keeps walking even when carrying a heavy load. Love keeps trusting, love never loses hope, and stands firm in hard times. The road of love has no end.”
~ 1st Corinthians 13:7-8 ( First Nations Version)

“God’s presence is not what one may call ‘general presence’. He visits us in our ‘specific’ time and place of complexity. Love is the mind that tries to understand specific needs of this man[woman] and that man[woman], this community and that community. That ‘God is love’ is not a general statement applicable to the general overall situation. He is ‘specifically’ love…. Love is the mind that appreciates complexity.”

~ kosuke koyama ( Waterbuffalo Theology)

03/03/2025

“Confession is a difficult Discipline for us because we all too often view the believing community as a fellowship of saints before we see it as a fellowship of sinners. We feel that everyone else has advanced so far into holiness that we are isolated and alone in our sin. We cannot bear to reveal our failures and shortcomings to others. We imagine that we are the only ones who have not stepped on to the high road to heaven. Therefore, we hide ourselves from one another and live in veiled lies and hypocrisy.”

Celebration of Discipline
~ Richard Foster

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