Dear St. John's Community,
The word "enough" has been on my mind lately.
What is enough—not too little, and not too much?
For instance, are we doing enough to flatten the curve? Are we distancing enough?
Do we have enough food, toilet paper, medicine, or food for the pets?
Are we doing enough to fulfill our many responsibilities, and to support our loved ones, friends, or others in need?
Or, taking a different angle completely, have we just
had enough
? And if so, what are we going to do about it?
During normal times, so much of what we think we need is not really neede
d.
But what we learn at a time like now is that we can never have enough strength in community.
As Paul writes so beautifully about Christian community, in God we are one:
For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body—Jews or Greeks, slaves or free—and we were all made to drink of one Spirit. (1 Cor. 12:12-13)
The question of what is enough is a question about what matters. We are learning what that means more and more every day.
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Service tomorrow.
I hope you will tune in tomorrow as we worship together online with music, prayer and preaching. We continue to innovate, and this weekend my sermon is coming to you from Rock Creek Park. Click
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