We are sent, out into the world, the same ministry, the same mission bringing a hope, a belief, a joy unlike any other, incomprehensible in strictly human terms in the same way we are blessed, sent forth, out into the world as Christ himself was, with a blessing from the father, a laying on of hands; but hands we cannot see bodily imbued, touched by the holy spirit that which coursed over the chaotic waters too at the moment of creation the same breath of God giving life, filling us now in the same ministry as the son the same message of love in the same was, filled by the spirit resting on us, entering into us in the same way commissioned to bring the good news of the father’s love into a broken and hurting world
January 27, 2009 Matthew 28:18-20 John 20:21 Acts 2:1-21 and Isaiah 42:6-8 Luke 4:18-19 Matthew 25:31-40 and sermon, “Righteous Say When?” by Pastor Ruth L. Foss, Suncook United Methodist Church, Suncook, NH January 25, 2009