So What Now–The U2Charist!

Here’s a little taste of what’s to come . . . I hope to see you at the U2Charist Sunday morning at 11:00.  Peace . . .

For the past five weeks we’ve been on an amazing journey together.  We started with where it all started, with creation.  God was so filled with love that God couldn’t keep it within the divine heart.  God called creation into being: Let There Be.  Scripture tells us that God is love, so in the name of love we were created through love in order to love God and each other.  It is in the name of love that we are here today.

But there comes a time in our Christian journey when we are filled with questions and doubts and fears, when we secretly write in our journals that we still haven’t found what we’ve been looking for.  Which Jesus is the right Jesus?  Is Jesus conservative or liberal?  Are we to follow the Roman Catholic Jesus or the Orthodox Jesus or the Pentecostal Jesus or the liberation theology Jesus?  It’s enough to make your head spin!

 But then we hear that we are all one in Christ.  That in Christ there is no Jew or Greek, slave or free, male and female, and that through the waters of baptism we all become one in the body of Christ.  We realize that faith in Christ supersedes, is over and above these silly walls we have built to segregate and quarantine.  Salvation is not nearly as much being saved from something as it is being saved for something, being set apart by God not from the world, but for the transformation of the world.

Then we received a vision of heaven, a place where the streets have no name because the streets don’t need names because we know where we’re going.  We read that Christ is with God in heaven and when Christ is revealed before the Father we too are being revealed because Christ is living within us.  It is not I who live, but Christ who lives within me.  Christ is what it means to be alive and this life will be revealed by those who believe.

 And last week we talked about that Beautiful Day when God set the rainbow in the clouds and made a promise that God would not deal with evil by destroying it; rather God will work tirelessly to redeem it, going so far as to become human, so that we might find life.

So here we are today . . . Come on Sunday to hear more.  Don’t forget, this Sunday is the U2charist.  You won’t want to miss it!

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mrawle2000

Ha! Yeah, actually it will be playing in the background during the announcements, so it’s there, just not live. I should have added it!

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