25th September 2022 Year C – Pentecost 16 “You Can’t Take it with You”
What to do with a car door!
ALL AGE MESSAGE
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As we celebrate Pentecost our prayer may be that the Spirit may come and set us alight anew.
Then people will see God through us as we ‘shine’ in the world around us.
Today’s reading is a wake up call! Seeking the wrong things in life will do you no good!
Luke’s version of the Beatitudes is challenging us to live a life against the grain of our society and to see things differently.
The Kingdom of God is the reverse of the earthly kingdom we live in. It seeks to level the playing field.
Jesus is increasing in wisdom by asking and listening and even amazes his elders!
It is frustrating when we have to call on one much younger, to teach us about computers!
However, there are also times when the wisdom and experience of having lived a bit of life is both important and valued.
The acronym for TEAM: ” Together Everyone Achieves More”, opens us to possibilities and to actively encouraging each other.
Hugh Mackay notes that the level of social connection in society is declining.
People are happier when they have meaning and purpose and also deep and significant connections.
The Church is a place that still provides this, where our differences and different gifts are valued, and community and connection is enabled through Christ’s living presence and mission.
Jesus said, “Do you want to be made well?” Of course he did after being by the pool for 38 years!
When the time came he simply did as Jesus asked him … and was made well and was so happy.
The trouble was – it was healing on the Sabbath! The Jewish leaders were not happy!
Do we, in a moment of another’s moment of grace and joy, sometimes react negatively, like those leaders?
Herbert Spencer supported the idea of the survival of the fittest. How does this conflict with the teachings of Jesus helping the man by the Bethesda Pool? ALL AGE MESSAGE God’s spirit works in our life like seeds, planting thoughts and aspirations and drawing from us the desire to be a part of God’s…