Good Friday is a day of wonder. At the community Holy Week services, a glorious thing happened. Brother Isaiah from the Lighthouse church preached a rousing sermon on the atoning work of Jesus. As a freind of mine from the Baptist church offered the closing prayer, the tears flowed as he confessed his own and all of our racism and division. Today we worshipped together in Spirit and in truth; we gave a window onto the Kingdom of God. God desires full communion between his people. We can all worship together at the feet of the crucified one.
At lunch and at worship, at least ten pastors of nearly every stipe of Protestant Christian joined together for five days of community (there were Roman Catholic members there as well).
Jesus died for that very kind of reconciliation. When we turn toward the cross, we see our sin and brokenness, the places where we are cut off from God and one another, and how God can turn the cross into the bridge to unity.
God has been so great to bless us all with the saving blood of Jesus Christ. What should we do to proclaim our love for Him?
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