Lent is a time to take stock of what shapes our identity. It was time of being shaped in a new identity before baptism. In it we remember that in the wilderness Jesus’ identity as “the beloved Son” was being sorely tested. We wonder what shapes our identity as beloved children of God, and what tempts or tests us away?
John then explores how our communal worship is a primary way we are shaped and moulded (within Anglicanism) as the beloved people of God.
The sermon nores can be found here