Andy Goodliff has invited me to ‘post that verse or story of scripture which is important to you, which you find yourself re-visiting time after time’.

I must say that I find this to be a most difficult task. On Andy’s criteria, Exodus 19:3–6; Psalms 32; 88; 89; Ezekiel 16; Daniel 9:9; Jonah 3:1; Hosea 11; Matthew 20:1–16; 27:1–10; Mark 5:21–43; 7:24–30; John 1:14, 29; John 17; 1 Corinthians 1:18–2:5; 2 Corinthians 5:11–21; Ephesians 1; Hebrews 9–10; 1 John 4:7–12 and Revelation 5 all loom large. (Andy did say, ‘you can make it two or even three, if you can’t reduce it to one!’)

If I just had to choose one passage, I’d say 2 Corinthians 5:16–21,

‘So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation: that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation. We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God. God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God’.

If they haven’t already been tagged, I’ll tag the following:

Michael Bird
Dan Goldfinch
Michael Jensen
Lawrence
Jon Mackenzie
Frank Rees
Byron Smith
Chris Tilling – Psalm 27:4
Michael Westmoreland-White
Paul Whiting – Genesis 1-50