BREAKING
NEWS! Father Riley will lead us in Holy Eucharist Sunday, June 24.
Please join us for the 10am service and the fellowship time following the
service.
Forward Day by Day for THURSDAY,
June 21
Matthew 18:20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, I am there among
them.
Jesus’ disciples are
an ideal small group: enough people to divvy up important tasks but not so many
as to lose focus and identity. They are also deeply flawed: naysayers,
fickle-minded, easily distracted, anxious, contemptuous, and deceitful. To put
it simply, they are human—the good, the bad, and the ugly.
Too often, I find
myself thinking, “If everyone would just let me do this myself, it would be so
much easier!” Then again, there’s a reason Jesus doesn’t make twelve individual
home visits in place of the Last Supper. Instead, he calls together a dozen of
his beautiful, compassionate, broken, cowardly, and treasonous friends around
one table, under one roof, and breaks bread with them.
In a culture hell-bent
on being absolutely right all the time, we risk losing sight of the fact that
it is possible to disagree and make mistakes and lose focus—and still love and
respect one another. Jesus dwells among us in spite of our tantrums and
disagreements and distractions, drawing us ever deeper into one beloved, broken
body.
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