Friday, September 27, 2013

sending out more messengers

Good afternoon sisters and brothers,
I'll do this again, but I want to mention that Sunday afternoon the fire department is going to have an open house. It's a great opportunity to stop by and take a tour or check out some fun things they'll have set up. Importantly for us, we need to keep their parking lot clear for them. If you can, please park across the street at the dentist's office. If that won't work, you can also park in the line of spaces against the church, but please don't park in the rest of the lot.

Our reading for today features Jesus sending out 72 disciples to spread the word. One thing that catches my attention here is that announcing the coming of the kingdom is good news or bad news depending on how we respond to it. How are we sharing the word now?

God bless,
Sam




Luke 10:1-16
After this the Lord appointed seventy others and sent them on ahead of him in pairs to every town and place where he himself intended to go. 2He said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest. 3Go on your way. See, I am sending you out like lambs into the midst of wolves. 4Carry no purse, no bag, no sandals; and greet no one on the road. 5Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this house!’ 6And if anyone is there who shares in peace, your peace will rest on that person; but if not, it will return to you. 7Remain in the same house, eating and drinking whatever they provide, for the laborer deserves to be paid. Do not move about from house to house.

8Whenever you enter a town and its people welcome you, eat what is set before you; 9cure the sick who are there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’ 10But whenever you enter a town and they do not welcome you, go out into its streets and say, 11‘Even the dust of your town that clings to our feet, we wipe off in protest against you. Yet know this: the kingdom of God has come near.’ 12I tell you, on that day it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that town. 13“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the deeds of power done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. 14But at the judgment it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon than for you. 15And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will be brought down to Hades. 16“Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me, and whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”

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