Kester Brewin

Jesus_ incarnation and ministry thus present us with the final critique of strategic religion; on the cross, where we see God almost deliberately __ose_ _ 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 __inning_ people for Christ, it will end inexorably moving towards power-politics, towards support for wars, and away from genuine concern for the __ther_.

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.