First Covenant Church

So far as a group we have looked at several aspects of what it means to light up our community.  We have discussed how this would look, how we are called to be salt and light bringing restoration, and also how individual grace should always lead to corporate grace.

However, this week Pastor Tammy will be looking at this issue from a different angle.  We will be looking at the parable of the sheep and goats in Matthew 25 from which we get the famous line, "What you do unto the least of these you do unto me."  We have looked at how this would affect others lives around us and how we could transform people, but what we haven't talked much about is how it will transform us.

In Isaiah 58, we hear that God does not want a fast that is devoid of justice.  He says, "Is not this the kind of fasting I have chosen: to loose the chains of injustice and untie the cords of the yoke, to set the oppressed free and break every yoke? Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter—when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood? Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the LORD will be your rear guard. Then you will call, and the LORD will answer; you will cry for help, and he will say: Here am I."

There is this truth that part of serving is for our spiritual benefit; that we may get more out of it than those we serve; that it is connected to our well-being, our healing, our righteousness, our very relationship with God. 

So come, join us.