1. Purpose precedes failure.

Humanity’s vocation begins in creation and the image of God, not in condemnation.

2. Salvation is grace.

Restorative work does not purchase divine acceptance. Grace creates a people available to good works.

3. The reconciled become reconcilers.

What is received becomes vocation. Reconciliation with God opens into ministries of reconciliation.

4. Repentance takes harm seriously.

Where wrongdoing creates reparable harm, restitution belongs within responsible repentance.

5. Restoration is larger than the individual.

Families, communities, institutions, economies and creation can all become sites of restoration.

6. Priesthood is service, not spiritual ownership.

Authority is accountable, consent matters, and no leader monopolises access to God.

7. Identity is received beneath God.

Culture, ancestry and nationality can be honoured without becoming hierarchies of divine worth.

8. Truth can be examined.

Questions, evidence, professional knowledge and honest disagreement are compatible with mature faith.