God is going to build a community on this earth that looks like this prayer. Full of truth, glory, power, love, forgiveness, holiness, and that’s how we overcome the world. That’s the church we pray for.

 I am the vine; you are the branches. Those who abide in me, and I in them, will produce much fruit. For apart from me you can do nothing.

 I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever.

 To all who receive him, to those who believe in His name, he brings all that He is and all that He has - the entire arsenal of the power and presence of God to bear on your life, so that you can be His and live as a child of God.

 The Word of God activates His purposes in our lives, allowing a change in the atmosphere around us, putting His glory on display.

 God’s word is given to us to feed us, fight for us and make us fruitful. But where do we even start?

 Looking back at Luke before lock-down it is evident that God used 2019 to prepare us for what was to come in 2020. Though much of what He said was lost on us, the word of God always comes a second time.

 Jesus built a radically different, counterintuitive culture that shocked people – and set them free – and we get to be part of it.

 God intended you to live on a mantel piece, a trophy of his grace, on a lamp-stand bringing light in a crooked and perverse world. Don’t let anything compromise your saltiness, your bright shining light, bring God-flavour to your world!

Jesus summarises all that we are called to with the command to love the Lord our God with all our heart, mind, soul and strength, and to love our neighbour as ourselves. So it should come as no surprise that Jesus ends his ministry in Matthew 25 with a deep dive into what this looks like practically for us today.