Message: “Do Not Lose Heart”
I don’t know if you have noticed, but life is messy. People are messy. Relationships are messy. And since COVID-19, it seems that life, people, and relationships have only gotten messier. Chaos, stress, fights, disagreements, protests, and that’s just in our families before the coffee is brewed and the first Zoom meeting is underway!
What about the church? How messy is the church? How messy is faith? We would like to think that the church is the place where everything makes sense and everyone is on board and we are all happy and loving and full of hope and peace, but people who think that is what the church is like, most likely have never really been part of the living, breathing mess we call the local church. Many others have seen that side of things and unfortunately gave up on church a long time ago.
I can understand that. Mess is stress, but it is also life and often it is the way we grow.
This week Grant is continues with a new series that will take us through the book of 2 Corinthians.
2 Corintians is Paul’s messiest book about one of the messiest congregations in the Early Church. Paul is in the thick of things, broken, hurt, attacked, unsure, awkward, but still clinging to his faith in Christ. It was a time of uncertainty and chaos. It was a time when the church was battling cultural compromise and disappointment in themselves and in their leaders.
I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that this is the right book for our present time. Let’s enter this messy faith and see that where there is mess there is also life and hope.
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