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/Worship – Evangelism –/* Justice*
(*1:18 *niv) “Come now, let us reason together,” says the Lord.
“Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red as crimson, they shall be like wool.”
· This promise epitomises the *hope* we have in *Jesus*
o it’s the /what/, not the /how/
o God’s desire for His creation since Genesis 3:6
· “…reason together…” – *reason*?!
o if it were reason we would be destroyed
o this is God’s reasoning, not ours – his love, not ours
*Miroslav** Volf* – /Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a World Stripped of Grace/, *p.130*
· The wonder of forgiveness
o scarlet red to whiter than snow or wool
· Tension in the Church between /forgiveness/ and *guilt*
o “all things are permissible…” (1 Cor 10:23)
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*Spong*: “I am convinced that you don’t become whole by simply suppressing your dark-side but by accepting it as part of your being and redeeming it and living through it.”
o ‘keeping the people in their place’
o staying aware of our sin
· /Conviction/, not *guilt*!
o both can motivate – one positively, one negatively
· Holding these in balance, we read: *Isaiah 1:10-20*
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· Reassuring trait for a trainee minister:
o I’d never noticed the *context* of 1:18 before
o compare with two passages being widely read at the moment
§ *Amos 5:21-24*
§ *Micah 6:6-8*
· God is calling us to rediscover the *inextricable* link between worship and justice
o you */cannot separate/* the two
o to /ignore/ one is to /ignore/ the other (*explain*)
· Seeing *acts of justice* as *acts of worship*
o world as God’s /creation/
§ what is God doing with His creation?
· /restoring/ it?
§ are we called to *join* in God’s work?
· *for His glory!!!*
· /Shining like stars/
o *Philippians 2:12-16a*
o the Kingdom
§ what does *the Kingdom* /look like/?
§ what does *justice* /look like/?
· *Lesotho* in the summer
o orphans, street children, poverty etc.
§ no moralising!
§ speaking to myself as much as anyone else
o *glimpses* of the Kingdom
· Often left feeling ‘guilty’ after sermons on justice
o */guilt-induced/* social action
o not /exclusively/, but /frequently/
· *Romans 8:1* – Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.
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o no doubt that by being /complicit/ in western society we have done wrong and put ourselves first
o whatever we may have been or still be guilty of in terms of justice is now *white as snow or wool*
· What issues of injustice are there around the *world*?
· What issues of injustice are there in the *UK*?
· What issues of injustice are there in our *communities*?
· Isaiah, Amos and Micah (amongst others) present us with an opportunity to see worship in a new way
o to see issues of *justice* in a new /context/
§ opportunities to *worship* through seeking justice
§ opportunities to *proclaim the Kingdom of God’s arrival in Jesus Christ* through seeking justice
· How are people receiving this?
New idea?
Sit with it.
· Prayer to close
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