Being Christian: Baptism, Bible, Eucharist, Pryaers-by Rowan Williams

1. Baptism

- Watery chaos -> Holy Spirit ->"This is good."

  Chaotic life -> Baptism by the Spirit -> "You are my son."

- To be baptized is to recover the humanity that God first intended.

- Baptism does not confer on us a status that marks us off from everybody else.

- "Prayer" is just what God does in you when you are close to Jesus.

- "Baptism" takes us into closer neighbourhood with a dark and fallen world, and it takes us into closer neighbourhood with others invited there.

2. Bible

- Reading the Bible is about building analogies between then and now, and recognizing in them your story. p.36

3. Prayer

- "the essence f prayer... is to let Jesus pray in you and take you into the very heart of God the Father." p.67

- "Physical stillness and physical solitude matter."

4. Eucharist

- Jesus is not somenone who exercise hospitality; he draws out hospitality from others. By his welcome he makes other people capable of welcoming.

- Holy Communion makes no sense at all if you do not believe in the resurrection.

- one of the most transformingly surprising things about Holy Communion is that it obliges you to see the person next to you as wanted by God God wants that person's company as well as mine.