What is God Saying to the Church? (Bishop Robert Barron, Fr. James Mallon, and Revd. Nicky Gumbel)

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March 2022 marks two years since the pandemic hit much of the world. What is God saying to the Church in the last two years?

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  1. Why is the family not allowing in "the great majority … worldwide" (Pope Francis, 2015) of cases those in roles "to make the family aware of its identity … and its role …" (Pope St John Paul 11, CL, 1988, 40)? If the reason is that "the great majority of marriages are invalid" (Pope Francis, 2015), then why are those of us in roles as helpers of the family not making these families aware of their identity and role so as to help repair this invalidity? Why do we as family members allow the Church as a role to purport to presume that "the family … might be regarded as the domestic church" (Vatican Council 2, Dogmatic Constitution, Lumen Gentium, 1964, 11?

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  2. Why is evangelisation by the family avoided by these speakers?
    The Church is a role not a whole family that also has identity.
    Fr Mallon had it that the sheep are entrusted to the parish priest but this is the problem of a false status and clericalism since both are entrusted to the family.
    It is the family as the only group that can keep or allow inseparability and qualitative equality of identity and role that authorises with an absolute power, not the Bishop or Vatican that are roles.
    Our task is not to build up the Church but to build up the family to be open to us in our roles to our right to make you the family aware of your identity and role. In such a way, the family can and must require from all the respect for those rights, that our helpers consider to be their rights, that in saving the family, will save society itself.

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  6. The gospel I would say is the main message of the Bible, it is the work of Jesus Christ, the Son of God and what He did on the cross for all of humanity.

           Despite the efforts of any person, we cannot earn our way to heaven, Romans 3:23 says: "For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God". Anyone can examine themselves and know that even though yes sometimes we can do good, we also do evil at times, we commit moral crimes, we rebel against God, or as known otherwise we sin. We lie, we steal, we blaspheme God, we can lust and have hate for our brother in our heart, these are just some of the sins more than likely every person on earth has committed. God is loving, holy and God is merciful among other attributes but He is also just, perfectly just. Like any crime sin has to be punished, if God did not punish sin then He would be unjust, He would be corrupt, someone has to take the punishment. Romans 6:23 says: "For the wages of sin is death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord". This is talking about spiritual death, not physical death, if you die in your sins then you go to hell. There is good evidence that humans have souls, near death experiences are one of those evidences. There is a part of you that lives on past your physical body. 

          God sent His only Son to earth about 2000 years ago, His Son is Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the promised Savior of the world, He fulfilled hundreds of prophecies by coming to our world. Jesus was born of a virgin, lived a sinless life and was crucified on the cross as a payment for our sins. God poured out His wrath on Jesus in our place, meaning the justice of God is satisfied and sin is punished. While we were still at enmity with God, God still wants to save us, Romans 5:8 says: "But God demonstrates His own love toward us in that while we were yet sinners Christ died for us". 3 days after Jesus was crucified He rose again proving that His payment was enough and that He was who He said He was, the Son of God. There is real world evidence for the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, this is not just a nice story.

            Scripture tells us to repent and put our trust in Jesus, to follow Him as Lord. Repentance means a change of mind which means to turn from a life following sin to a life following Christ. Salvation is a free gift and it cannot be earned, no one can be perfectly moral on their own, it is impossible, this is the only way to be in the presence of God in heaven. It is important to reiterate that we cannot save ourselves, it is the gift of God for one to be saved. Cry out to God to have mercy on you, plead with God to save you. Ephesians 2:8-9 says: "For by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not as a result of works so that no one may boast". Salvation is a gift. 

          There is no other way, Jesus Himself said that He is the way, the truth and the life and no one comes to the Father but through Him. Jesus is not just a way, a truth or a life. Romans 10:9 says: "That if you confess with your mouth Jesus as Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead you will be saved."

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  8. Many thanks! Very inspiring and a joy – especially the wonderful prayer at the end, uniting all diciples around Jesus. I appreciate most the key items: spiritual health & priorization and clarification of the Lord's resurrection, bridging the gap between evangelisation and catechism issues, clarity in terms of definitions and serious evaluations, involving intellectuals and ordinary people. Cry out to the LORD and expect his help.

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