WEEK 01 || REST AND IDENTITY IN JESUS - RECEIVE || Matt 14:13-21 & Isaiah 55:1-5

We live tired, and we work to prove ourselves. Scripture turns that upside down: rest comes first, because identity comes first. Across four weeks at St Francis we explore rest as gift, presence, mercy and calling — and meet the Jesus who names us before we achieve anything, then sends us out to work from his rest.

Why do we rest? Not because we’ve earned it — because God gives it. This week Isaiah throws open a feast that money can’t buy, and Jesus, grieving and interrupted, feeds five thousand from almost nothing. Rest begins with receiving, not achieving. Week one of Rest and Identity in Christ, from St Francis.