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Reflection Question 5: ‘Are you the one who is to come, or should we look for another?’ reveals John the Baptist had some doubts about Jesus as the promised Messiah. John had preached of a divine judge, a vindicator, a warrior, someone separating out the good from the bad, throwing people into ‘an unquenchable fire’. Jesus’ actions caused some confusion to John. What is your image of God and Messiah? What expectations do you have of God bringing ‘salvation’?
Advent Story. The Master and the Puppy. C.S. Lewis. Imagine you were God and you had a puppy. You wanted to show your puppy you loved it completely. How would you show your love? You would feed it, take it for a walk, cuddle it, let it come inside…… But would you consider an extreme love? How about completely taking on the condition of being a ‘puppy’ with all the self emptying it involves? This is what God has done in Jesus. This is the real celebration at the Heart of Christmas. What is your response?
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Reflection Question 2: Isaiah promises a future time when all nations will ‘go up to Jerusalem’. This will be a time of Justice and Judgment. Fighting will change to Feeding. Outside the United Nations is a sculpture where a sword is beaten into a plough with the inscription ‘they shall beat their swords into ploughs’. What changes in the world need to take place for this ‘transformation’? What change needs to take place within ‘you’? What weaponry do you use: Wounding words? Cutting looks? Angry attitudes? Arrogant pride? Blindness toward to the hurting? How could you ‘walk in the light of the Lord’?
Advent Story: William Barclay. 3 Devils. Three apprentice devils were coming to earth to finish their apprenticeship. They were talking to Satan, the chief of the devils, about their plans to tempt and ruin people. The first said: I will tell people there is no God. Satan said, ‘that will not delude many, for they know that there is a God.’ The second said ‘I will tell them there is no hell.’ Satan answered, ‘you will deceive no on that way; they know even now that there is a hell for sin.’ The third said, ‘ I will tell them there is no hurry.’ ‘Go’ said Satan ‘and you will ruin them by the thousand’.