Good News!

It is a constant human temptation to seek salvation by separating ourselves from the ordinary. We look for salvation through amassing power or wealth, through great accomplishments and high honours. But Jesus (a name which means Saviour) is born and he lives and he dies in one small country, in an obscure corner of the empire. The only treasure he leaves behind is his teaching. The only legacy he leaves is his life. This saviour does not come with armies and swords and chariots to impose salvation. This saviour does not come with the funds to purchase salvation or the propaganda to manipulate us into it. This saviour comes only with an invitation, an invitation to follow him, an invitation to find salvation not by escaping the vulnerability of being human but by embracing it.