{"id":2411,"date":"2021-05-07T16:13:34","date_gmt":"2021-05-07T15:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/?p=2411"},"modified":"2021-05-07T16:18:01","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T15:18:01","slug":"choice-a-slippery-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bobjanet.org.uk\/bobsblog\/2021\/05\/07\/choice-a-slippery-word\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Choice’ – a slippery word"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

According to Sunday’s Lectionary<\/a>, Jesus tells his disciples, “You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit…”<\/em> But they kind of chose as well – they could have said ‘no’. In this context, the idea that they were chosen makes them truly a part of this big project, to ‘bear fruit’. They need not worry about not being up to the task – Jesus (and the Father) will give them what it needs. Those words may help us at a time when God’s way (locally anyway) seems further than ever from human hearts; and justice and truth and mercy seem like some kind of anomaly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But let us not forget that ‘choice’ is a slippery idea. From the kind of ‘persuasion’ that helps a powerful man convince a young woman to let him use her body, to consumer ‘choices’ only available to those with spare money, to the five-year choice we all make, which needs accurate information to be truly democratic, ‘choice’ is something inevitably never totally free.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Some time at the last resting place of some ancients, Five Wells. Does heaven have to wait for this?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

According to Sunday’s Lectionary, Jesus tells his disciples, “You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit…” But they kind of chose as well – they could have said ‘no’. In this context, the idea that they were chosen makes them truly a part of this … <\/p>\n

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