It's all good so far

Well – there is no podcast for Pray as You Go, on Saturdays and I had spent Friday evening and Saturday in the Vestry Retreat. We are blessed with an enthusiastic group with a great new Senior Warden to lead our Church.

Today I got serve as Worship Leader for the service and was very pleased to hear the teaching sermon that Fr. Scotty provided. Our Church is a liturgical Church and the service has traditions that are two thousand years old. I lead the declaration to a creed that has been recited as a statement of belief since its origin in the Council of Nieca in the 3rd century.

We are trying to our new members and our youth that inspite of the appearance of a rote service, the words are more than that, it is a connection and continuity with the Community of Christ that stretches back 1700 years.

A connection to people that have experienced hardship, hunger, war, poverty, disease. A connection to people that have celebrated life, births, weddings, and deaths. All sharing the same beliefs, the same message, hope of salvation.

Yes there are going to be challenges keeping the distribution and application of this message in order to reach the next generation. A lot of life’s distractions make it easy to stay away from the pew. I don’t have the answers, but I am willing to work at it, to see what I can learn, what I can share, and find out where it takes us.

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