What’s all this God Talk?

How can you grasp an infinite God? How can I even begin to understand? Wait a minute? What did you say? The word. . . the unspoken thought. . . the mind of God. . . became visible . . and moved to live in the neighborhood?

That's right. . . God became flesh and blood. . . brought it down on the asphalt, to where the rubber meets the road. God meets needs that even a preschooler can grasp! "Jesus loves me, this I know." God lets me and you experience the glory of God on a multi-sensory level.

"We declare to you what was from the beginning, what we have seen with our own eyes, what we have looked at and touched with our hands, concerning the word of life."

1 John 1:1

God is a communicating God. Jesus is passionate about letting the whole world know about God's relentless, untiring love. God is a God who is in Pursuit. God pursues the tired and the weary, the widow and the orphan, the hurting and the oppressed, the up and over, the down and out, the heterosexual and the homosexual.

God's love is wonderfully expressed in the "99 and I" principle. You know the story. People with leprosy and all kinds of other ugly conditions are coming to listen to Jesus. Outcasts are offensive to religious people who use their faith as a shield against sickness and poverty. "This fellow welcomes sinners and eats with them." So Jesus told them the story.

"Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? And when he has found it, he lays it on his shoulders, shouts for joy and carries it home."

Can you imagine how Jesus does for the sheep what it cannot do for itself? He picks it up and carries it home! When he gets home he calls his friends and neighbors, and they party hearty! "I tell you the truth, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine people who are already in the house" (Luke 15:1-7).

If God is in hot pursuit, then the agenda of the church is the one, not the 99 who are safe and cozy! And if you are that one who is looking for meaning in your life, then God is looking for you. We invite you to come look for God with us at St. Luke's. 

The one thing we know for sure is that we don't have all the answers, and for us that okay. because God is in charge at St. Luke's and we have faith that when we enter in to this place, God will indeed enter in to meet with us, because relationship with us is what God is all about.