Discover Christ In Community
2021년 7월 11일Discover Christ In Community
<Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time >
If you’ve traveled overseas by plane recently, you can begin to appreciate Jesus’ command to take nothing “but a walking stick—no food, no luggage, no money but a pair of sandals yet no second tunic.” Airline regulations, extra baggage fees, and cut-backs on meals and snacks have ironically made Jesus’ travel orders suddenly very real. But we’d be missing the main point. Jesus doesn’t just want us to travel light, he wants us to travel two by two, to provide two witnesses for the Gospel and thereby unleash its power. But to do this we have to depend on each other, as well as the kindness of strangers for food and shelter EACH day. This is another way of asking: “how much do you depend on Christ and how much do you rely on your own power, money or authority?”
When Missioners go overseas, do people see them as representatives of the Kingdom of God or as citizens of a powerful nation? Do the Missioners rely on the good will of the community of faith or on support from wealthy benefactors back home? If we fail to see the presence and healing power of Christ in our modern life of faith, perhaps it’s because we rely too much on our own resources and not enough on him who rose from the dead and who empowers us to go out in his Name with nothing but the clothes on our backs.