Go
to church? Follow Christ? Be a good person? Give away all of my money? Give away everything I own? -- No!
“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.”
I
stand up here regularly and tell you that we are all wealthy. We give thanks for the abundance that God
gives us. So what does this mean for us?
No
kingdom of God? No …. We can’t do anything to inherit eternal
life. It’s up to God.
So
why do we do all of this? Why do we
baptize? Why do we go to church? Why do we spend our time and our money on
this thing called the church?
To
help God bring about the kingdom of heaven on earth.
How
do we do that and what does it mean?
We
support each other. We learn about what
it means to be made in the image of God.
We work for justice. We look for
Christ in everyone here and everyone we meet.
One
of the reasons we are wealthy is because God gave us the church. The church is our family in Christ. Help when we need it. Companionship. Peace.
We
are here because of love. Our love for
each other. Our love for those who came
before us and those who will come after us.
Our love for our community. Our
love for God. … And most of all, God’s
love for us!
Thanks
be to God.
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