These past weeks I have been talking a lot about our call to be ambassadors for Christ, the phrase that begins our mission statement. That statement reads, "Called to be ambassadors for Christ, SRCA is a vibrant body of Christ followers reaching out to bring healing and hope to neighbors near and far so that they will know the power of Christ?s love. We serve our neighbors by tending their spiritual, physical, and emotional, needs through the power of the Holy Spirit."
As we?ve heard, ambassadors represent their homeland while living in a foreign land. Some folks may be thinking, "I didn?t sign up to be an ambassador." By virtue of the fact that we are Christ followers, this is the call upon us. Our choice in the matter is whether we will represent Christ poorly or well. The more attuned we become to the love and mercy embedded in God?s law, the better we are able to represent Jesus. The call for us to be holy as God is holy is a call for us to be salt and light, to be people who can point to a holy and loving God with integrity, because others experience Him through us.
On this coming Sunday, the 7th Sunday of Epiphany we hear that call, to be holy as God is holy, in our scripture readings. The lessons for the day include Leviticus 19:1-2, 9-18; Psalm 119:33-40; I Corinthians 3:10-11, 16-23; Matthew 5:38-48.
Welcome to our worship. I pray you will draw near to God, and be more and more transformed into His likeness.
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