Sermon 8-24-03 Mt 22:1-10
Goings on………
Upward
Olga
Carol Q
1115 Park Bapt
1210 Baich Bapt
1230 speak at Ed Lunch
Announcements
Disciple BS
Sarais Shop
View SS Lit
Need SS Teachers
After upward
Upward basketball is intentionally invitational. We are not simply inviting them to our gym. Thru upward, we are inviting them to take their place at our master’s banquet.
After Olga
Russia is a long way away. The challenges of the Russian people and the Russian church are too easily out of sight, out of mind. Sometimes, we don’t even know if we are really making a difference. But. Everytime we reach out in mission, we are inviting people to find a seat at the lord’s banquet table.
After CarolWe are busy. We are too busy. All around us are lonely people looking for a friend, an embrace, a place to belong. Your efforts make a difference. Every time we take the time or make the time to reach out to them, someone else is introduced to Gods love.
The servants went to invite others to the banquet…..over and over again
Did you ever feel unwanted? No place to belong, no one cared about you?
For whence should the City of God originally begin or progressively develop or ultimately attain its end unless the life of the saints were a social one? --St. Augustine, The City of God, xix, 426.
Being wanted
Accepted
Cared about
Desired
You are either a constant advocate for your faith, or you are not
When the time is right
Be ready to give answer of the hope that lies with in you
God is calling you to someone
Who is it?? What is it about? Will you go? The second mile?
As Gandhi stepped aboard a train one day, one of his shoes slipped off and landed on the track. He was unable to retrieve it as the train was moving. To the amazement of his companions, Gandhi calmly took off his other shoe and threw it back along the track to land close to the first. Asked by a fellow passenger why he did so, Gandhi smiled. "The poor man who finds the shoe lying on the track," he replied, "will now have a pair he can use." Maybe you have invited someone before. We need to give them both shoes.
In a world that "couldn't care less," we are to be people who couldn't care more.
Priest at assumption abbey
Come….you are wanted
God is saying, I want you
No better message…………..
People are waiting out there. They are waiting for a word from you. Are they welcome, can they come. Are they wanted.
Invite them to the banquet
Goings on………
Upward
Olga
Carol Q
1115 Park Bapt
1210 Baich Bapt
1230 speak at Ed Lunch
Announcements
Disciple BS
Sarais Shop
View SS Lit
Need SS Teachers
After upward
Upward basketball is intentionally invitational. We are not simply inviting them to our gym. Thru upward, we are inviting them to take their place at our master’s banquet.
After Olga
Russia is a long way away. The challenges of the Russian people and the Russian church are too easily out of sight, out of mind. Sometimes, we don’t even know if we are really making a difference. But. Everytime we reach out in mission, we are inviting people to find a seat at the lord’s banquet table.
After CarolWe are busy. We are too busy. All around us are lonely people looking for a friend, an embrace, a place to belong. Your efforts make a difference. Every time we take the time or make the time to reach out to them, someone else is introduced to Gods love.
The servants went to invite others to the banquet…..over and over again
Did you ever feel unwanted? No place to belong, no one cared about you?
For whence should the City of God originally begin or progressively develop or ultimately attain its end unless the life of the saints were a social one? --St. Augustine, The City of God, xix, 426.
Being wanted
Accepted
Cared about
Desired
You are either a constant advocate for your faith, or you are not
When the time is right
Be ready to give answer of the hope that lies with in you
God is calling you to someone
Who is it?? What is it about? Will you go? The second mile?
As Gandhi stepped aboard a train one day, one of his shoes slipped off and landed on the track. He was unable to retrieve it as the train was moving. To the amazement of his companions, Gandhi calmly took off his other shoe and threw it back along the track to land close to the first. Asked by a fellow passenger why he did so, Gandhi smiled. "The poor man who finds the shoe lying on the track," he replied, "will now have a pair he can use." Maybe you have invited someone before. We need to give them both shoes.
In a world that "couldn't care less," we are to be people who couldn't care more.
Priest at assumption abbey
Come….you are wanted
God is saying, I want you
No better message…………..
People are waiting out there. They are waiting for a word from you. Are they welcome, can they come. Are they wanted.
Invite them to the banquet
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