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Dear friends,
We
head
whole
heartedly
into the season of Lent. We are reminded on a weekly basis and sometimes
more often of our human condition. The Christian Church, following in the
tradition of our Hebrew forbearers, has always deemed it appropriate to
take a good long hard look at ourselves. For some of us this comes
naturally and we do so without outside influence or urging. For others of
us we really do need this reminder and this challenge because we find it
so much easier and pleasurable to measure everyone else’s human condition.
We are really good at clarifying where others are wrong and where they
need to improve. Like the man in the parable Jesus shared, it is easy for
us to check the speck in another’s eye while ignoring the log in our own.
Your leadership has covenanted to consider
the older brother in the parable we call the Prodigal Son. So many of us
in the Church are a lot like that Older Brother – you know the one- the
one who was ticked at his father for welcoming his worthless son back
home: quick to judge and quick to claim credit for being as close to
perfect as anyone can be. It is an occupational hazard for those of us who
have worked so hard to be perfect Christians for so many years.
One of the lessons of the parable is that
God never loved anyone because they were perfect. He loves us because we
are His. We never stopped belonging to Him. We have never been outside the
realm of His love. We have never ever come close to being perfect and He
knows that. Sometimes we forget.
Lent allows us to remember that in our
imperfection the richness of God’s perfect love touches us even more
deeply. The distance that God came running to us in the person and work of
Jesus Christ is more readily apparent when we are able to recognize how
far we have wandered.
May this season of Lent be one where we
not only see ourselves more clearly but one where we see how much we are
loved even more clearly.
In Christ’s love,
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Contents |
| Coffee Hour, Greeter's Schedule, Lay
Leaders, Birthdays, Anniversaries |
| Healing Prayer, Prayer Chain, Mission
& Evangelism, Deadlines |
| FEED Schedule, Holy Week Schedule,
Chicken and Biscuit Dinner, Communion Sunday |
| Easter Flowers, Sr. YI Reunion,
Chicken & Biscuit Dinner |
| Wycliffe Bible Translators |
| Thank You, Pre School Applications |
| Library Update, Ballroom Dancing
Lessons |
| Broad Ave. North, Options-Book Review |
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