'Finally, after the gift is identified,
as
it is being developed,
it
is shared with others.
Jesus
says,
No one after lighting a lamp puts it on a bushel
basket, but on a lampstand,
and it gives light to the entire house.
So let your light shine before others that they may see
your good works
and glorify your Father who is in heaven.'
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A copy of this morning's order of service may be found here.
'Paul’s appeal worked, the Gospel bore fruit, even in the place where Greek philosophy held sway. And it bore fruit because Paul came to common ground with his hearers, piqued their curiosity, and made his confession, encouraging them that what he was saying really wasn’t so different after all. They could then see, if they had the vision to do so, that the confrontation to which they were called was not a face-off with an angry man, but with a merciful, just, and loving God.'
The order of worship may be accessed by clicking here.
'These images (for the Church) of body and temple are important for us today, but they might be hard for us to understand. In our age of what the philosophers call ‘the sovereign self’ we have almost completely rejected the idea that meaning in life is to be found beyond the satisfaction of individual desires, the exercise of our individual freedoms, the achievement of individual goals, and the fulfillment of individual aspirations... It is almost as if we believe that a field full of separated, disparate, disjointed rocks is a more beautiful and noble thing than a place where the stones are molded and shaped and joined together into a place fit for habitation.'
