Pentecost 22 - Love and Humility- Matthew 22:34-46
The greatest commandment is to love God with heart, should and mind, with all we are, to love our neighbour as ourselves. To humble ourselves.
The greatest commandment is to love God with heart, should and mind, with all we are, to love our neighbour as ourselves. To humble ourselves.
Jesus calls us to live out our lives as authentic, created-in-the-image of God people. This touches everything we do, say and think, and as controversial as it sounds, how we vote.
God's grace welcomes us as we are, but it also calls us to change.
God has entrusted this vineyard for a moment in time, so may we tend to it faithfully, share it generously and produce good fruit.
A father has two sons..... who couldn't be more different in their responses. Yes, it's a story ages old, but also a story about the ways, the paths, the choices of responding. The parable begins with these words.... "What do you think"? So what DO you think? Join us as we explore life and faith together.
God chooses to show grace to all people. Are we open to receive it?
As we receive God's mercy and forgiveness, how do we show mercy and forgiveness to others?
In ways this passage is about addressing the difficult issues of conflict and relational breakdown within the church. In other ways this passage is an invitation into the loosing, liberating, life giving ways of Christ. This may be a difficult passage to understand, but certainly it is a difficult passage to embrace as part of the Christian life.
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