The Reign of God as beginning here. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com . The Reign of God as beginning here is part of the vision of the parables of the Kingdom of God. In those parables something is happening now. The leaven is working - the mustard seed is not staying with that smallest of the seeds talk - stuff is beginning to happen now and it will have something to say about tomorrow when tomorrow gets here. For now, the Reign of God as beginning here is the life into which we are invited to play and live and love even if no one else in the world will join in and even when most everyone in the world thinks that such living is foolishness. The Reign of God as beginning here is not about 'maybe next time' or 'that is not practical' or 'what if this...what if that'. It is about let's go - let's be - let's jump in - let's march for a life that is not yet the life everyone has. In a world that has oh so many ways of limiting who is able to be in and who will be served and who will benefit from our goodness - God's Reign simply throws out the net and there we are - fully abundant - fully mixed up and confused - fully too much trouble for all the folks whose lives are fixed on sorting and picking and judging who are the keepers. The Reign of God as beginning here is that door to the church that is wide open and the people inside who help make everyone who enters a part of the household. It is also the door to the church that sends us out so that when we encounter the world around us, it is as though we never left the character of the body behind for next Sunday. It begins here - and here - is always right here. O God of love and new life, let the wind of new life lift us up again today. Amen. |
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