Together God Works within Us

Many hands make light work!

I’ve said this too many times to count, that it almost feels like a cliché now.  Yet, I have said it so much because this is what it means to live within the Body of Christ, within the faith, within a church, and I dare say just to live.  No one person can do everything alone.

This coming Sunday will be Stewardship Dedication Sunday in which my sermon will be short as we dedicate to God our time, our talents, and what we hope to give to the service of God in the church over the next year.  We’ll do all this as we also dedicate the many clothes to Restoration Chapel that you have collected over the past month.

            Why?

Because together, we do the work of God.  Because together, we know and experience God at work in the world.  Because together, we glimpse the kingdom of God for all of the world.  Because together, we realize that the world is not as it could be and as God seeks to make it to be.

To you who have turned in your Time and Talent sheets as well as your pledge offerings, I thank you dearly from the bottom of my heart.

To you who have not yet been able to do so; please prayerfully fill them out and bring them to dedicate with the others.  Because with them we can better know you, we can better connect you with ministry that fits your gifts and passions in the work God is doing within our community, and we can better plan the year(s) of ministry to come.

Bring your many hands.  Bring your many gifts.  Bring your willingness of time and talents and treasures; so that God’s work might be light for all of us together and we to be a living witness to the Gospel of Jesus Christ.