worship

Greetings Friends in Christ!
As we consider what becoming an embassy church means and how re-developing community happens, we need to think again about how unity and conformity work. The world loves to unite people who look, act, and think alike. It’s efficient, it’s affirming, it feels safe and comfortable. But for all the good things it does, it inevitably creates conflict. Paul believes that Jesus changes all this, that unity doesn’t come through specific alignments, but through each person’s connection to Jesus that enables people to be different and bring difference to a unified community. And all this comes through “sober judgment” that is enabled by God and not by conformity to the world.
This Sunday is World Communion Sunday, and it’s fitting that we consider how Jesus, more than anything else in the world, is able to unify people in spite of significant cultural difference.
Rev. Dr. Gregory Wagenfuhr