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Jesus’ incarnation and ministry thus present us with the final critique of strategic religion; on the cross, where we see God almost deliberately ‘lose’ — as if duped into being strung up by a scheming, fearful group of clerics — we see the end of power games. God will not play. I sincerely believe that if the Church allows itself to be tied up in strategies, into ‘winning’ people for Christ, it will end inexorably moving towards power-politics, towards support for wars, and away from genuine concern for the ‘other’.Kester Brewin
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Jesus’ command to love our neighbours is a command to love all strangers precisely because we too have been strangers to God and welcomed in.Kester Brewin