St. John\'s Anglican Cathedral Parramatta
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No matter what walk of life you have come from or what your own history is, there is a place and a purpose which God has for you. At St. John’s we meet to encourage one another as we find our common purpose in Jesus Christ.
St. John’s Cathedral encompasses an extraordinary diversity of community life. We would love you to join us and we want to invite you to be part of our community and purpose. Across every age group and across the cultures that make our city – our goal is to know Christ and to make him known. |
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Dear Family and Friends of St. John's,
God is the God who speaks, and uses human language to achieve effective communication. He has made human beings in his image and likeness as speaking beings. It would be a bizarre situation if God could not speak. When reluctant and stammering Moses claimed to be slow of speech, the Lord replied, ‘Who makes man's mouth? Is it not I, the LORD?' (Exodus 4:11) Jurgen Moltmann wrote, ‘Theology, as speaking about God is possible only on the basis of what God himself speaks'.
The Old Testament shows us that God can speak in human language. Of course God does not have vocal chords, but he can imprint human words in our consciousness, or produce the sounds of human words for our ears, or speak to us by humans who speak his words. God is often described as speaking directly and personally to individuals or to his people. Every time God uses human language, his words are both divine and human, ‘God's word in human language' just as Jesus is both divine and human, ‘God's word in human form'.
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