You are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles. Sometimes I think about what we owe our ancestors in the faith. Most of us ministers have had these two kinds of encounters: first, with a person who has rejected the faith, not after well-thought-out reasoning but because of just plain, dumb ignorance. Sometimes these are people we love very much and there’s nothing we can do but call on the saints to intercede for them and try to be a saint ourselves. Then there is that second encounter with someone who has just discovered the Gospel and is blown away by what they have never known and have been seeking all their lives. They feel themselves to be no longer strangers, but at home. Saints of God, be with those we love who have not found their church home, we pray.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 09:43:59 +0000
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