Building the peace of Christ in our divided and broken world
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Building the peace of Christ in our divided
and broken world
What is broken?
Genesis 1 & 2
Genesis 3.8Exodus 3.6Isaiah 6.5
Genesis 3.16, 4.3-8Genesis 27.1-42Genesis 37.3-35
2 Samuel 112 Samuel 13.23-34
Genesis 3.17-19
‘I do not do the good I want to do
but the evil I do not want
to’ Romans 8.19
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What God created at peace was broken:
every aspect of human experience
tainted by the degeneration of difference into
division.
What would it look like if it
wasn’t broken?
Isaiah 2.3-4 Micah 4.2-3
Sālôm: ‘fullness of life and wholeness in all
areas of life: material, familial, societal and
religion’ Timothy Ashley
‘The Book of Numbers’ p153
Revelation 22.4Revelation 21.2Isaiah 62.5 .
Revelation 7.9-10
Ezekiel 47.7-12Revelation 22.2
Isaiah 26Ezekiel 36.26
What has been done about it?
The Christian faith ‘absolutely depends on an unimaginable crossing of
frontiers, the barriers between God and
despairing, Godless men and women’
Rowan Williams ‘The Truce of God’ p31
Matthew 5.9John 4.4-26
Luke 19.1-10
Ephesians 22 Corinthians
5.19Matthew 27.45
Christ’s full embrace of the human condition, including its separation from God, is paradoxically what brings
reconciliation. His self-giving love in action created a
bridge across all that divides us and God.
Ephesians 22 Corinthians
5.19Matthew 27.45
1 Corinthians 15
“God’s own future … has burst into the
present” NT Wright, ‘Paul:
Fresh Perspectives’ p135
What are we, the
church, to do?
‘Believers in that future given by God are able to
sing and to dance, to heal and to forgive’
Walter Brueggemann‘The Prophetic Imagination’ p112-113
Church should act as ‘Sign, foretaste and instrument’ of the kingdom of God
Lesslie Newbigginin ‘As the Father has sent me, I am
sending you’
We have caught the vision splendidOf a world which is to be,When the pardoning love of JesusFreely flows from sea to sea,When all men from strife and anger,Greed and selfishness are free,When the nations live togetherIn sweet peace and harmony.
Doris RendellThe Salvation Army Songbook 833
We would help to build the cityOf our God, so wondrous fair;Give our time, bring all our talents,And each gift of beauty rare,Powers of mind, and strength of purpose,Days of labour, nights of strain,That God's will may be accomplished,O'er the kingdoms he shall reign.
Doris Rendell .
The Salvation Army Songbook 833 .
Building the peace of Christ in our divided
and broken world