12/8/2015 Tuesday
Romans 15:7-13 (NT) A Word of Promise Even to “Outsiders”
Welcoming is the word in my mind that comes
to me on reading this text. In this text the writer is telling the Christian
Community in Rome that Christ came not just for the Jewish Community but to the
Gentiles also. “Praise the lord, all you Gentiles and let all people praise him”
from the Old Testament is quoted.
I have been reading Accidental Saints by Nadia Bolz-Weber. What I am impressed by in
the book is how people need to hear that they are loved by God and are
important the way they are. The book has many stories of how different
individual have come to believe in God and thereby believe in themselves. What
brought them to God were people of the Church community listening to them and
affirming them.
What I see ourselves trying to do in our
church and our lives is to affirm the people we have around us by listening to
them and sharing our stories. It is not easy and takes time but that is how God’s
love is shared.
Prayer: “May God, the source of hope, fill
you with all joy and peace by means of your faith in him, so that your hope
will continue to grow by the power of the Holy Spirit” Romans 15:13
Irene Germain
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