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The Chibi News Daily Reflection

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Hi, I'm Reverend Mike, a vicar in the Church of
England. What is the best news you have ever received

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Perhaps that yes after an interview, or the
all-clear after that trip to the doctors

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The Christian message is at heart the announcement of good news.
That's what the Old English word gospel means, glad tidings

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And the good news is this. It begins with the claim that the
world is not an accident, but the work of a good and loving God

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And yet it's clear that something has fractured that relationship.
The Bible calls it sin, humanity turning away from its maker

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and all of the brokenness that we see
in our world flows directly from there

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But God in his love sent his son
Jesus to reverse that fall from grace

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You see the cross is the place
where heaven and earth unite again

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Jesus died to pay the penalty for our sin and as he rises
he promises a new world full of joy in his presence forever

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John 1.12 says, To all those who received
him, to those who believed in his name

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he gave them the right to become children of God. At
heart, Christianity is not advice, but an announcement

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that infinite grace is on offer and that
a new beginning is possible in Christ

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to all who will receive him