The following piece was created during the Cofereimagining conference 2020 by collating lots of phrases from the conference and adding others that summed up conference themes. The final piece was completed while ++Justin was speaking.
We Are
(On Pilgrimage with Sanjee Perera, Archbishop Justin Welby and many others)
During her talk Dr Sanjee Perera
stated “we are”. She went on to describe Christ’s followers in this way, “we
are rebellious prodigals redeemed by grace”
The assertion that “we are” struck a
chord. Elsewhere Dr Sanjee described followers of Jesus as, ‘A new tribe
baptized and liberated by a new covenant.’
I think this piece would have become
a call and response, a litany, had we been together in person, but instead, “we
are” becomes the refrain
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The people round here, the people
round there
We are…
The people together, the people apart
We are…
You, me, we, - there’s no such thing
as “us” and “them”
We are…
Rebellious prodigals redeemed by
grace
We are…
The called and the sent
We are…
This new tribe baptized and liberated
We are…
Followers of Jesus Christ
We are…
The Church, the body, the bride
We are…
Those who listen
We are…
Hungry for compassion
We are…
Filled with sighs of longing and the
laughter of hope
We are…
Companions of the just shepherd
We are…
Those who call for the walls of our
hearts to come down
We are…
Those who call for the frontiers of
our minds to be opened
We are…
Friends of disruption
We are …
Not locked in our buildings
We are…
The Hilda’s who will scare the snakes
away
We are…
Those with holy intentionality
We are…
Consumed by creative questions
We are …
Working through the gaps between what
we think and feel and do
We are…
Wading through the quagmire of
Christendom saturation
We are …
Fools for hope chiming softly across
the land
We are…
Seeking after the Spirit wherever she
is found and celebrated
We are…
The people asking after the heart of
our neighbour’s week
We are…
Wanderers of wonder in a world
wearied by worry
We are…
Those called further out into the
world
We are…
Proclaimers of the Good News of the
Kingdom
We are…
Willing to walk the wilderness roads
We are…
Those with soft hearts and hard and
holy feet
We are…
Those who reimagine what it means to
join in with God
We are…
Servants of our communities
We are…
The people who hang luggage tags of
hope and prayer from the branches of trees
We are…
Those who carry the cross
We are…
Those who speak up for the despised
We are…
Those with eyes open to the Spirit
We are…
People with a willingness to go and
act and listen and speak
We are…
Bearers of the light, speakers of
life
We are…
Witnesses to tiny sparks of possibility
We are…
Those who are willing to go
We are…
Those liberated on the road
We are.
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