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When it comes to mature Christian behaviour, we are all a work in progress and none of us can claim to have arrived. Our aim is to please God ‘more and more’ by the way we choose to live out our lives.

God clearly is a God of peace and yet there are times when in a sinful and broken world, war seem to be the lesser of two evils.

Four out of ten people ‘go to work’ each day and the proportion in Biblical times would not have been very different. What is the place of business within the purposes of God?

How does the conviction that God created human beings in his own image and that God is the giver of life help us to approach ethical issues in the life sciences, medicine and health care?

We must try to discern the balance that God intended for all of the parts of creation to live together interdependently, including the land.

The urgency here is not in getting our theoretical ethics right; it is learning to love people and together finding ways to make our churches counter-cultural communities of love where every person may find true human intimacy and God's healing grace.

Ethics covers how to live a good life, our rights and responsibilities, the language of right and wrong, moral decisions - what is good and what is bad. Where, then, are we to turn for moral guidance?