Assistant Principal - Mission - Staff and Student Wellbeing

Over two thousand years ago, God’s Son entered the world – a world of poverty, oppression, injustice and war. It was a place of very little hope. The most important part of Jesus’ mission was, of course, to die for our sins on the cross and, through repentance and faith in him, open the way for us to experience eternal life with the Father. As Romans 5:8 says, “God demonstrated his own love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us”. Jesus paid the ultimate price for our sins!

Jesus came to earth to give people an understanding of the Kingdom of God and the eternal hope that they had through Him. Jesus spent much of His time among the impoverished, the weak, the hurting and the rejected in society. Jesus not only preached the Good News through His words, but He powerfully demonstrated the Good News through His actions! 

Long before Isaac Newton’s third law of motion (i.e that for every action there is an equal or opposite reaction) impacted on the field of mechanics, the gospel author Luke perceived an action and reaction in the event of Jesus’s resurrection. He recognized that the same resurrection power that raised Christ from the dead also propelled Christ’s disciples in a spirited mission to the ends of the earth. 

We still live in a world where there is enormous need, poverty, injustice and pain. As God’s people, we are asked to show His compassion to the poor. We are called to be His hands and feet in a hurting world. And this is not optional. It is a responsibility with which we are entrusted and are expected to fulfil. 

So what is it that you can do to make a difference? Take time to stop and think and then put it into action.

Until next time:

Remember that....