“For our struggle is not against enemies of blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this present darkness”. Ephesians 6:12

​God our most Holy Friend, through your Son Jesus you call us together and send us out as a new family, formed around you. Give us revelation and courage to live out the mystery of our faith and so make known the wisdom of God in the heavenly places, In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

“Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.” Ephesians 5:21

God our most Holy Friend, through your Son Jesus, you call us together and send us out as a new family, formed around you. Give us revelation and courage to live out the mystery of our faith and so make known the wisdom of God in the heavenly places, In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

"Be careful then how you live, not as unwise people but as wise, making the most of the time, because the days are evil." Ephesians 5:15–16

​God our most Holy Friend, through your Son Jesus you call us together and send us out as a new family, formed around you. Give us revelation and courage to live out the mystery of our faith and so make known the wisdom of God in the heavenly places, In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

1.       Recall some of the encounters Jesus had with people (on slide 4 I had Jesus meeting  Zacchaeus,          Jesus Washing feet and Jesus with the woman caught in adultery….there are others of course )                and discuss under what  ‘ministry’  each of the encounters would come.

2.    The Bishop’s response to Jean Valjean is based around Luke 6:30b. Apart from the Lord’s                         injunction to be merciful, which the bishop would be endeavouring to imitate, what in his                        encounter with Valjean would have helped him to make the decision he did? What does this say to        us in our encounters with people?
3.   Discuss ‘Be perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect’. Matthew 5:48.  We know that this is                        impossible so what is God asking of us?. 

“So then, putting away falsehood, let all of us speak the truth to our neighbours, for we are members of one another.” Ephesians 4:25

​God our most Holy Friend, through your Son Jesus you call us together and send us out as a new family, formed around you.  Give us revelation and courage to live out the mystery of our faith and so make known the wisdom of God in the heavenly places, In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.

“I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called”.  Ephesians 4:1

God our most Holy Friend, through your Son Jesus, you call us together and send us out as a new family, formed around you. Give us revelation and courage to live out the mystery of our faith and so make known the wisdom of God in the heavenly places, In the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, Amen.