Be Yourself! II

As the reflection concluded yesterday, be yourself has both a individual aspect and a community aspect.  As a Christian person, be yourself means living in the Way of Christ each and every day.  But as Jim Wallis of Sojourners has said, "religion is personal but never private."  As a Christian person, be yourself is the connection to your faith community.  Picture a circle as our faith lives flow from personal to community from community to personal.  Is a both/and process.

This year at St. John's we are being community as Good Stewards of God's creation.  Our accountability to one another is to care for what we love.  We care for our community not only through the ministries that claim our passions, our hearts, but also through the ministries that others offer.  We are accountable to one another for the spaces in which we worship and serve.  We are accountable to one another for those who support our ministries, teach the faith, and, feed us through the sacraments.  We are accountable to one another for our diversity in worship, growing economic and cultural diversity, and, education for all ages.

"Where your heart is there will your treasure be also." Reflect today on the question, what is one ministry at St. John's, our your own parish, that you treasure. Then, think of five other people you know in the congregation who would choose a different ministry as their treasure.