Sunday, December 25, 2022

CREATING COMMUNITY

 

IMMANUEL

CHRISTMAS 2022


Christmas is a celebration of the arrival of one of the three triune beings, the Son of God, and hence the prophet Isaiah (7:14) foretells this child will be called Immanuel, God with us.  

 

Whenever I have a concern with scripture, I seek out what Immanuel told us during the three years he walked among mankind while wrapped in human flesh.  When challenged by the religious leaders about the greatest commandments, he simply replied that if we love God and our neighbors as ourselves, we will be just fine.


“The person who loves their dream of community will destroy community, but the person who loves those around them will create community.”

 "The church is not a religious community of worshippers of Christ but is Christ himself who has taken form among people."

--- Dietrich Bonhoeffer

 

“It is said that before entering the sea

a river trembles with fear.

The river needs to take the risk

of entering the ocean

because only then will fear disappear,

because that’s where the river will know

it’s not about disappearing into the ocean,

but of becoming the ocean.”

---Khalil Gibran

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