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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
