Flowering the Cross

“Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him… So also consider yourselves dead to sin and alive to God in Christ Jesus.” (Rom 6:8,11)

It is easy, in our daily routines, to forget that we have been given new lives. It is easy to kill our joy by indulging our irritations, our pettiness, or our selfishness.

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May we remember throughout the year that as we have died with Christ we are also alive (or flowering) to God in Christ Jesus.

Shalom

The small group I am a part of was discussing the passing of the peace and what that means especially for our congregation. We can be a rather aggressive bunch when that time in the service arrives and for a visitor it might be intimidating. We talked of removing this from the service completely. Also of moving it to the end of the service and tying it to exiting from church and into society.

The more we discussed, the more we realized passing the peace might need to stay right where it’s at in the service. Maybe we just need to define it for everyone.

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