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Dear Q Church Family - Anth Chapman - 31st December 2020 by QYork

Incarnation - Anth Chapman - Saturday 19th December 2020 by QYork

The words we use can sometimes be unhelpful and misleading in respect to the message we are trying to convey. The bible translators were not immune to this. What makes it worse, is the thought that sometimes this was done deliberately!

By looking at the characters on stage during the epic event we call the nativity, how do we unlock its twists and turns and secrets to bring us a life defining moment that will keep unfolding for as long as we can imagine? An understanding of the truth of incarnation really is the gift that keeps on giving.

The greatest devil you will ever face, possibly the only one, is the one on the inside.

What is known in the bible as “the wilderness temptation” was not intended to convey some nominal exercise in script writing or storytelling, but to draw us into a very familiar human story which no human can avoid, the inner questions of identity and purpose.

Like the story, we are led there, whether we like it or not.

The religious spirit is a vile curse that has blighted all humanity since the beginning of time. The religious spirit is like oil, it gets everywhere!

It is not confined to religious organisations but seeps into anything and everything that holds power over people.

What would you think should be the response?

Have you ever felt stuck in your life?

The biblical story of the pool of Bethesda paints a powerful picture of what it means to be late to the party and addresses the frustration and reason why we reach the state of “stuck”.

There comes a time in all of our lives when we must face what we least want to face.

In that moment we have to acknowledge that we ourselves have contributed to the situation we now have to face along with others along the way.

The names we would give to the things we fear facing the most may be different but, at the core, they’re all rooted in the same things and there is one indispensable key to their resolution.

Can an ancient story give us the insight we long for?

Socrates said, “I am wise, not because I know, but because I know that I don’t know”.

There is something paradoxically powerful about this statement that asks important questions about what we would perceive constitutes wisdom, especially in regards to our quest for wholeness and what it means to be human.

If we can put aside the methods we adopt to simply survive situations rather than overcome them, like avoidance, selective blindness, and forced optimism, we may be able to accept there is a place from which to look that offers a noticeable and dynamic life changing shift.

It’s not so much what you’re looking at but where you’re looking from that makes the difference in life.

Within the dynamic of life we often find ourselves facing challenging contradictions.

What if these arise to alert us to the presence of a greater reality than the one we currently embrace?

This is where the Judas principle comes in.

We are QChurch! Why Q? We are on a Quest, a Quest for spirituality, joy, relationship, justice, beauty and a new world.

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