2c A different kind of community

A different kind of community

‘Freedom’ and ‘slavery’ are words that Paul weaves into ever more complex patterns. But behind it all is this conviction that there is a space where we can ‘look each other in the eye’ with both boldness and reverence, knowing that what we see in the neighbour is the person God has welcomed and the person who is ‘owned’ by Jesus, owned not as a chattel, not as a thing, but because of the creative force within her of the Spirit of Jesus which has taken hold of her…