Scripture: Galatians 2:10
They asked only one thing, that we remember the poor, which was actually what I was eager to do.
Thought for the Day: Last Sunday, I mentioned my hero in the faith, Archbishop Oscar Romero, who was serving in El Salvador in 1980 when he was assassinated. Before his death, Romero wrote:
The Church can be the Church only as long as it goes on being the Body of Christ. Its mission will be authentic only so long as it is the mission of Jesus in the new situations, the new circumstances of history. The criterion that will guide the church will be neither the approval of, nor the fear of, men and women, no matter how powerful or threatening they may be. It is the church’s duty in history to lend its voice to Christ so that he may speak, its feet so that he may walk today’s world, its hands to build the reign of God…
The Apostle Paul was asked by the Jerusalem church to “remember the poor,” and Paul’s response sure sounds like a nice way of saying, “Well Duh!” For Paul, the body of Christ had certain things it did or it couldn’t be the body of Christ. I wonder how often we, like those to whom Romero wrote, forget what it means to be the church.
Prayer: For those who desperately need your message, O God of Grace, let us be the body used to bring it to them. Amen.
TOMORROW’S WORSHIP
SERMON TITLE: Tag, You’re It
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