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Rector's Blog
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
This month we're talking about the strengths of St. Tim's as I've discerned them in my visits with folks over my first 4 months as Rector. After joy I see in St. Timothy's a real strength in community. Community is a vague word, as I mentioned in my sermon Sunday, and can mean all sorts of things. But there is a specific kind of community that is intentional in its life together. Where we can drop the masks that we all wear, and among friends share with each other, learn together, and grow in faith in God. Where we are given the opportunity to look at our relationship to God and one another and be moved to take new steps towards living the kind of healthy life that God desires.
Covenant groups is how we do that; worship is how we do that; giving of ourselves, from what we have been given, is how we do that; inviting others to experience what we are through worship and groups--these and other ways are ways we take those steps towards healthier life. And through participating we learn the truth of community--that we are, in the words of Gen 12, "blessed to be a blessing"--we are a community that blesses one another and blesses God. St. Timothy's is a community of faith that takes Jesus seriously when he says to his disciples, "This is my body" and "this is my blood": "do this in remembrance of me". We remember him--through our bodies, all that we have and are, we recall him to life. In our life together we become and are called ever more to be the body of Christ in the world.
Community--what a strength! It's our strength, given to us by God, and resident in St. Timothy's.
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