We have an opportunity in front of us to get to know one another in a way that we have not done so before. Do we have the connection to one another to weather the impending storm? Only you can answer that question.įor the next two months, we are going to continue to have one service at 10am. We have struggles ahead of us as a congregation and I can’t even tell you what those struggles will be for certain, but they will come. As hard as those struggles were, I knew that we were connected enough as a congregation to survive, that we loved one another enough to get through the struggle before us. In my 20 years as a pastor, I’ve had the congregations that I have served struggle with difficult issues. I didn’t post about it on social media nor did I say much about it to anyone. On my recent vacation, I celebrated the 20th Anniversary of my ordination. My concern is that we as a congregation are not knit together as tightly as we need to be. For well over a year, we haven’t had a lot of opportunities to work side by side, we haven’t been able to sit in a room together and study scripture and discuss difficult topics, we’ve been separated in worship by pews and poles and masks and technology and so forth. I’m weary because I am worried about our congregation as we enter into this time of coming back together. As I have been reflecting on what I want to say in this article, I have been doing a lot of pacing. Whenever I have something difficult to say, I spend a lot of time pacing. There is one body and one Spirit, just as you were called to the one hope of your calling, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all and through all and in all.”-Ephesians 4:1-5 Paul writes, “I therefore, the prisoner in the Lord, beg you to lead a life worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, making every effort to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
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