The Father we never knew

To preach the Gospel in the power of the Spirit is to find yourself, much to your own surprise, speaking to what is not, as if it is. Of all the voices that are speaking to you in this world, the voice of God is the only one that does not speak to you according to your natural state.

Live reconciled. Live from the party, not from the field. Live from His acceptance, not for His acceptance. It is not your job to reconcile yourself to God. God has done that through the man Christ Jesus.

Let His life do the work. Let His life be done unto you according to His Word to you. Let the power of the Gospel call up in you, His life.

All who want a Saviour, have a Saviour; Jesus Christ

“You cannot carry the weight of trying to save yourself from death. That burden will crush you and steal from you your innocence; the joy and wonder at just being alive. What you need is a Father, who gives you a life greater than death, and so lifts from you the burden of trying to save yourself."

A conversation with Jeff and Roger Fields on the beauty and power of the Gospel and our journey in understanding that when we dilute down the generosity of God, we take the metanoia out of the message.

Here is the reckless scandalous gospel in all its glory…. God thinks you are worthy of giving His life to.... so He did! That’s not advice. That’s news and news on such a scale as to awaken those dead to God as He truly is, that they may see the true knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ.

When you grow up in a world that doesn't believe in a Saviour, such a world can only teach you to be your own saviour.

If we don’t grow to know Him as the God who loves His enemies, we will never love ours.

Only when your heart and mine is persuaded that the Father has not left us to save ourselves, will our attempts to save ourselves through our own piety be put to rest

The natural mind, apart from the Holy Spirit, does not have and cannot have a true image of the Father.

If Christ and His work is not laid as the foundation of our new life, we will continue to put far too much weight on our own performance/obedience as the foundation for our lives. Of course my obedience to God’s direction is important, but what I want to show you this morning is that my obedience is not the foundation of my new life in Christ.

Right the way through the Bible, God’s voice calls life into being. But that being, is not being an individual, it is being with God.

Everything that religion says God demands from you, He has already supplied in Christ.

The Gospel of Jesus Christ never leaves you in the shadow of your own performance.

In heaven, there is no one trying to become anyone, for all have found their being with God. The Kingdom of heaven is not the realm of becoming. It is the realm of being.

We have lost the wonder of the Gospel.

10 minute excerpt from a talk given to the Ascension Ministries Council of the Apostolic Church UK on "Shifting from Church-centric to Christ-centric discipleship.

In the first Adam our life fell, from being to becoming. In the last Adam our life rose, from becoming to being. In Christ our being is in God.

We preach the riches of God’s mercy and grace and we will keep preaching that until we all are completely healed of grasping for life and see our lives rise, from becoming to being, for the mind of Christ is not a mind trying to become someone, but being someone.