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When Jesus set out from his home town of Nazareth, empowered by the Spirit, he saw his mission in terms of proclaiming the kingdom or reign of God, the God to whom h e prayed as Abba (see Mark 1:14-15; Luke 4:16-21; Mark 14:36). The phrase “reign of God” which he used would have evoked in his hearers the great promise of God recounted throughout the history of the Jewish people. It was that, despite all obstacles, God would ultimately reign over all those forces that prevented God’s plan for this world from being achieved. That plan envisaged a particular way of life for human beings. By his teachings and his actions, Jesus showed humanity how to live, above all with love and compassion. He sought to bring in outcasts and welcome home sinners, to draw the hurt, unloved, suffering, the lost and the excluded into closeness and friendship with him, and therefore with God.  Jesus’ mission was to draw all back into communion with God and right relationships with each other – “Love God; love your neighbour” (Mark 12:29-33) – and his understanding of neighbour allowed no restriction (Matthew 5:43-48). To love God was to live in communion with God; to love one’s neighbour was to live in communion with one’s fellow human beings. The latter, he insisted, was not possible without the former. |
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