Message from Bob Henderson                        Friday, April 28, 2017
 
Dear friends:

Nearly 100 years ago, the editors at The Times of London asked a few great writers to respond to an important question, a fundamentally human question, something nearly impossible to ignore no matter how hard we try: "What's wrong with the world?"
 
One of the writers, G.K. Chesterton, wrote a brief response: "Dear sirs, I am. Yours, G.K. Chesterton."
 
It's a good answer, though not common. More frequently we assign external blame for internal problems. What's wrong with the world? It's them....the liberals, the conservatives, the Arabs, the Jews, the North Koreans or the newest enemy of the week.
 
Yet, in our more honest moments, we join Chesterton in owning up to our responsibility in the matter. We admit that our lives are less than God's desire for us and that our broken ways contribute to a broken world. Christian tradition calls this "sin," a word modern, upbeat Christians don't even like to mention.
 
This weekend we'll make a brief - and hopefully helpful -- foray into this important topic, reluctant as we might be. I've decided to do so not to incent you to alternative Sunday morning recreational options but because most of us need help reconciling ourselves to the truth about our broken lives.
 
Kathleen Norris captures this reality better than most when she writes,
 
"Maybe there is someone who only thinks of good things in the middle of the night, who never lies awake regretting the selfish, nigh unforgivable, things that he or she has done. Maybe the unconscious of some people does tell them they are OK all the time. But, I wonder. I suspect that anyone who has not experienced wretchedness, exile, wandering, loss, misery, whether inwardly or in outward circumstance, has a superficial grasp of what it means to be human." (Amazing Grace, p. 166).
 
 
Join us, and bring a friend.

 
   
 

 
Bob Henderson, senior minister 

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