CHRIST CHURCH 2
10 enterprises responded to the invitation the congregation of Christ Church issued in the locality. Here in the final window the thrust of the adventure is symbolised. The edges of the parish are blurred, reminding us that every boundary we set around ourselves must be permeated that we may take account of the wider context in which our lives are set and our work undertaken. Only if we use boundaries for their limited purposes and also reach beyond, will we understand how giving worth to God enables us to become more human. Ultimately 'none of us can be fully human until all are human'.
The suggestion is made that all who rejoice in worship or struggle to give worth, must recognise that Jesus the Christ pointed not to himself, but to his Father and his Father's kingdom.
'If God does not have a want for His world, then who does?' said Bishop Tutu, the South African winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1984. Our faith in God made manifest on earth sends us into the social, economic and political arena to replace dominion by service and coercion by co-operation. It challenges us to seek mutuality and equivalence between, women and men, servers and served, and people and nature, in all forms of work.
These windows on the world of work symbolise the call to use the gifts of nature with human skills to give worth to God through responsible service to society.
