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Go: I am sending you
This is the kingdom search and rescue operation: searching out those in whom God is working, and rescuing them by pointing them to Jesus.
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Let the nations know
It sounds so obvious, but somehow it is so easy to forget that we are only human and he is God.
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In the summer of 2013 I left my IT job (writing web software) and moved house to start a training post to be a vicar. Rather than go straight from one to the other, I decided to go via Western USA and Canada, in a convertible Ford Mustang.
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In January 2019 Jess and I managed (what I hope isn't!) the trip of a lifetime to New Zealand. We hired a small campervan and drove around both islands for four weeks - and loved it! The only bad part was not being able to stay longer.
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I was born in Oxford while my father was doing his vicar training at Wycliffe Hall – where I also did my own vicar training, twenty-three years later. I grew up in a Christian family, and God has always been at the centre of my life.
Quotable
You look down your critical microscope at the New Testament text with a view to describing the religious life of the first-century Christians, and you find that God is looking back at you through the microscope and declaring you to be a sinner.
CK Barrett, quoted in Bockmuehl, Seeing the Word (Grand Rapids: Baker, 2006), p. 147.