THE GOOD NEWS
' The Christian religion requires of us something- more than "playing the man, and keeping a stiff upper lip." Christianity is more than a system Of ethics, more than a set of ideals. It is a Gospel. . The word Gospel means Good News, ,and Christianity is the Good News that in Jesus Christ God has come to man; God has come to brings His love to man and to fight the evil that holds man captive. The climax of God's fight against evil came on the Cross of Calvary, and on Easter Day in the , Resurrection of Jesus Christ God showed to the world that He had won the victory over evil. Now God is working to' bring that victory into the life oi each one of us, and into the life of all mankind. New Religious Power Needed. This is the meaning of thfe Christian religion. All of us who have been baptised are united .with Christ. His. life lives in us. He has banded us together in the Church which St. Paul calls "The Body of Christ." In the Sacrament of the Holy Communion He gives to us Himself as "the Bread, of Life." All' this He does not oniy for our own sakes, but in order that we may be' part of God's movement to redeem the world. So to be a Christian means something more than "playing the man and keeping a stiff upper lip." The things I, have tried to say bring us to regions of deep mystery; but even the simplest of us can understand that if Christianity means that God has come to us in Jesus Christ, that He has for us won the victory over evil, that He is working to bring that victory into our lives, that He has joined us to Himself in Baptism, that in the Holy Communion He gives us His life and His sacrificial jSpint so that we can work with Him tb win the world — «ven the simplest of us can understand that if Christianity means this, we cannot be lax or indifferent about it. There is only one thing we can say about it, and that is that Christianity is what the world needs. And when men begin to say that the new waves of religious power which alone can save mankind will have begun to rise. Are you going to be one to help bring these things to pass?— The Bishop of Ballarat in the Church Chronicle, Ballarat.
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Waiapu Church Gazette, Volume 35, Issue 4, 1 June 1944, Page 11
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