Saturday, April 6, 2002
Saturday, April 6, 2002
After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in
pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go.
The church is a three-legged stool, and if it sometimes seems wobbly and uncertain of its
reason for being, its mission leg is usually too short.
Several years ago, police found a foreign exchange student who had been hiding in the attic of
the First United Methodist Church of Ann Arbor, Michigan, for four years! His hair was
shoulder's length, his skin was the color of a dead man's. He had been failing his courses at
the university and was afraid to face the consequences. He had fled the responsibility of the
world to the attic of the church.
We must move beyond our fears to be in mission to our world, so that our world may know
Christ.
(Luke 10.1
NRSV)
Obviously the early church did not confine itself to maintenance and ministry to its own
members. If it had, it would not have spread like wild fire throughout the Roman empire. It
obviously had a message to proclaim and a ministry to perform that was directed
outward to the world for whom Christ died.
Dear God, may my life and my church be a mission of sharing Christ to your world. Amen.
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