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Hello there. | 0:00:09 | 0:00:11 | |
I'm all right. What's your name? I'm Justin. | 0:00:13 | 0:00:16 | |
'Starting somewhere new is always a bizarre experience. | 0:00:16 | 0:00:19 | |
'There's so much to get used to, and things come at you at such a pace. | 0:00:19 | 0:00:24 | |
'It's been a huge year of contrasts.' | 0:00:24 | 0:00:27 | |
It's had some incredible high points, | 0:00:27 | 0:00:30 | |
one of them being the baptism of Prince George. | 0:00:30 | 0:00:33 | |
And...to be honest, I had to pinch myself | 0:00:33 | 0:00:36 | |
to think I was actually there. | 0:00:36 | 0:00:39 | |
'And another one was my installation at Canterbury Cathedral. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:44 | |
'A wonderful service in a packed cathedral, very exciting | 0:00:44 | 0:00:48 | |
'and a weight of history coming down on one's shoulders.' | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
And then there's been other real high points, | 0:00:53 | 0:00:56 | |
and one of them is today, | 0:00:56 | 0:00:57 | |
'coming here to this Church Urban Fund supported centre, | 0:00:57 | 0:01:01 | |
'The Ace of Clubs.' | 0:01:01 | 0:01:02 | |
She's one of our students from the education course | 0:01:02 | 0:01:05 | |
and has been really enjoying that. Are you? What are you doing? | 0:01:05 | 0:01:08 | |
I do computing. | 0:01:08 | 0:01:10 | |
I remember the first time I had to deal with a computer, | 0:01:10 | 0:01:13 | |
I was absolutely terrified. | 0:01:13 | 0:01:14 | |
No, no, no, no, no! | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
'They care for people on the very edge.' | 0:01:18 | 0:01:22 | |
They enable people to find their way back | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
into the mainstream of life when they want to. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
You are amazing. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:30 | |
'And that's one of the greatest excitements of this job,' | 0:01:30 | 0:01:34 | |
being part of an organisation that is, in many places, | 0:01:34 | 0:01:38 | |
the glue that's holding the whole of society together. | 0:01:38 | 0:01:41 | |
'Whenever Christians speak out on issues of poverty | 0:01:44 | 0:01:48 | |
'or social issues of all kinds, we always get letters saying, | 0:01:48 | 0:01:52 | |
' "Why don't you just talk about God | 0:01:52 | 0:01:55 | |
' "and stop getting muddled up in other subjects?" ' | 0:01:55 | 0:01:58 | |
When I go to my Bible and think, | 0:01:59 | 0:02:02 | |
"OK, what's God saying and how do I talk more | 0:02:02 | 0:02:07 | |
"about God and get closer to God and encourage other people to get closer | 0:02:07 | 0:02:10 | |
"to God?", the thing I find is that God says, | 0:02:10 | 0:02:15 | |
"Love me and show you love me by loving your neighbour." | 0:02:15 | 0:02:19 | |
And if you love your neighbour, you're going to be deeply concerned | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
in the things that trouble them, | 0:02:22 | 0:02:24 | |
'whether it's about heating bills, whether it's about insecurity | 0:02:24 | 0:02:28 | |
'in families and the need for good community life. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:31 | |
'And the Church is involved in those, | 0:02:31 | 0:02:33 | |
'because we want to demonstrate that we have freely received | 0:02:33 | 0:02:38 | |
'the love of God and we want to share that with others.' | 0:02:38 | 0:02:42 | |
It's not about politics - | 0:02:42 | 0:02:43 | |
it's about love. | 0:02:43 | 0:02:45 | |
I know it's the New Year and I don't want to sound like Scrooge, | 0:02:47 | 0:02:51 | |
but I never make New Year resolutions. | 0:02:51 | 0:02:54 | |
I'm just hopeless at them. | 0:02:54 | 0:02:56 | |
It's not that they aren't a very good thing, | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
it's just that I know I'm not going to keep them | 0:02:59 | 0:03:01 | |
and I have this vague sense that there's no point in doing them, | 0:03:01 | 0:03:05 | |
except there's one I want to think about this year. | 0:03:05 | 0:03:08 | |
'I want to suggest this year that each of us | 0:03:08 | 0:03:11 | |
'makes a resolution to try and change the world a bit where we are. | 0:03:11 | 0:03:16 | |
'Nelson Mandela said that dealing with poverty | 0:03:16 | 0:03:20 | |
'is not an act of charity, it's an act of justice.' | 0:03:20 | 0:03:25 | |
He said every generation has the chance to be a great generation, | 0:03:25 | 0:03:30 | |
and we can be that great generation. | 0:03:30 | 0:03:32 | |
'I look around and I see many signs of hope, | 0:03:34 | 0:03:37 | |
'but also there are many communities, | 0:03:37 | 0:03:41 | |
'many families, many individuals struggling.' | 0:03:41 | 0:03:43 | |
Perhaps our New Year's resolution is therefore not just... | 0:03:48 | 0:03:53 | |
to do something slightly differently, | 0:03:53 | 0:03:56 | |
but to set our eyes on changing the world around us. | 0:03:56 | 0:04:01 | |
That would really change our country in the most amazing way. | 0:04:01 | 0:04:06 |