Repairing The Breach

and your ‘fix’ or my ‘fix’ might exacerbate the issue, rather than repair. Meeting in the middle of the breach, sitting in the breach in order to understand the perspectives and fears and hopes of those who are most effected by the breach, and then acting together to repair what has been understood….that is the work of relational mission. This can happen in our own relationships and in our churches. It can happen between the rich and the poor. The powerless and the powerful. The forgotten and the forgetters. It must happen if God’s vision of a reconciled and just world is to be realised. Good theology is missional. Good prayer is missional. Good questions are missional. I’m hoping that these studies will help you invite the Spirit to flow through you and create something new, something that will be a missional gift to the church in these confusing days. For over 150 years, the Anglican Board of Mission has been participating in God’s mission in many, varied and messy ways. There have been moments of genuine triumph and moments of genuine pain. In both dark days and light, God’s Spirit has been present to guide and comfort, advocate and convict, intercede and reveal. Our job has been to listen and to learn, to persevere and to love, to follow and to lead. We offer these studies - for Lent or for anytime - because we believe that God’s mission is an invitation to participate in the adventure of the ‘now but not yet’ kingdom. A step on the road to forming communities who strive for love, hope and justice. Whether it be in your home, your church, your suburb or the wider world, the call of mission is the call to be engaged with, to love and to honour all that God has made. We walk the Gospel into the world not simply through words but through our actions. Mission is the continuation of the great Incarnational love story between God and all that God has made. Peace be with you, Steve Daughtry 5