8th July 2012.

The reading is from John 17:1-19. Jane spoke on the Jesus prayer as he faced the greatest conflict with the evil one. Jane again stressed that prayer relationship we have with the triune God but also Jesus’ relationship to the world (cosmos). It is a world that God loves but is in rebellion and under the rule of the evil one. Jesus was sent to save the world and by the same token we are sent by Jesus as his ambassadors to be in the world. Nonetheless we may expect to be hated, just as the world hated Jesus. The talk then looks at how Jesus prays for us and teaches us to pray and as a consequence our relationship to evil.

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