Third Sunday after Epiphany – 22 January 2017

DISCIPLESHIP THOUGHT

Sometimes our language betrays us. When we use the word ‘church’ our minds so often go to a building, and if you ask any child to draw a church they will most likely draw the same. We know that the church is the community of the faithful gathered together. We know it and we know that we know it. So we forget to tell each other that we, together, are the church and we drift into lazy thinking about buildings and clergy and denominational structures.

The house of the Lord is a world of welcome, safety and freedom for all creatures. It is for this world that we offer our resources and ourselves. How can we use language more carefully in our community in the future to ensure that we remind ourselves that we are the community of God, we are the church and that together we are the house of the Lord?

PRAYER
God of abundance, for the opportunity to participate in your great work of healing and restoration of the earth we are grateful.
May all that we give, our time, our treasure and our hearts be given so that this good earth can be the house of the Lord for all.