I had a fairly profound experience this morning driving across town and listening to...The Beatles. Strange I know, but true. The song Eleanor Rigby was playing on my radio, "All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong?" And as I was hearing those words I began looking around and thinking and praying. There are so many broken, hurting, lonely people in our town. Where they come from I do not know, but where they belong...
Theologian Simon Chan has argued that it is the mission of the Church to see disconnected individuals brought into relationship with the Trinity through the community of the Church. The word Church itself of course means the gathering, it presumes a corporate relationship. That song, these thoughts; they have fueled my renewed prayer that the Church of Jesus Christ, and specifically our little fellowship at Christ Our Hope will be a home where the disconnected find that they belong, so that wherever they come from, they know that they have a home here with God and with us.
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