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Divine acceptance Conversion Discipleship in the community Witness and service

Grace as a unitary experience of acceptance:. Divine acceptance Conversion Discipleship in the community Witness and service. Divine acceptance is a sheer gift…. God, in accepting us, reveals that we are intrinsically-able-to- be-accepted … … our intrinsic acceptability is a gift!.

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Divine acceptance Conversion Discipleship in the community Witness and service

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  1. Grace as a unitary experience of acceptance: Divine acceptance Conversion Discipleship in the community Witness and service

  2. Divine acceptance is a sheer gift… God, in accepting us, reveals that we are intrinsically-able-to- be-accepted… … our intrinsic acceptability is a gift! Acceptance

  3. God’s free communication of acceptance to the creature… Is a constant and continuous gift received as such by the creature Includes the gifting of the creature with acceptability Acceptance

  4. God’s gift of acceptance and of intrinsic acceptability… …empowers us to a NEW RELATIONSHIP to SELF, to GOD and to OTHER Acceptance

  5. Jesus is the parable of God’s gracious acceptance Jesus constantly received all that he was from the Father in the Holy Spirit. The Father spoke a “yes” to Jesus of unconditional acceptance. Jesus communicated what he received to others: to the guilt-ridden, demoniacs, sick, self-righteous and children. Acceptance

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  7. Acceptance

  8. Conversion The love-acceptance of God draws the “falsely self-assertive and harmfully dependent ego” into a relationship that is life-giving.

  9. My self-love now begins to be a healthy one, fruit of the gracious offer that I am learning to accept. Conversion

  10. Conversion God’s love-acceptance draws me fromwillful isolation(sin) to a genuine relationship (conversion). Not only our sins, but also our gifts can draw us to isolation.

  11. Conversion The accepting, gracious God of love draws ourselves – our goodness and guilt – out of isolation into life-giving relationship. Conversion is not a condition for the gift of Jesus’ (God’s) acceptance.

  12. discipleship in Community Genuine relationship with Jesus empowers us to accept... (a) the real God into our lives and… (b) our real humanity in God’s term.

  13. Personal intimate relationship with Christ… … shows us in practical, life changing ways who God is for us and who we are called to be. discipleship

  14. in Community Discipleship implies fellowship with the Father and with other people (even sinners) discipleship It is “discipleship in community” which finds explicit expressions in the liturgy – particularly in the Eucharist – in personal prayer, discernment in the Church

  15. Community discipleship “Discipleship in community” is the enveloping and grounding dynamism of our whole selves as oriented toward God’s own life

  16. From acceptance, through conversion, into community and discipleship experience… emerges a healthy self-forgetfulness and self-transcendence towards the neighbor… Witness witness service Service Self-transcendence toward one’s neighbor expresses itself in terms of WITNESS and SERVICE

  17. witness Towards “witness”: touched by Jesus, the disciples now represent Jesus to the people… places them in a kind of a decision-situation: for or against Jesus service

  18. witness service Towards “service”: these are particular beneficial effects my loving actions can have on others. Helping others is empowering them.

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