An 84 year old priest leading worship, slain. Eleven people killed while at morning worship. Now, in Christchurch New Zealand, Fifty people at prayer murdered by a madman. Whether at the altar, in the synagogue, in a mosque or in the wide open, the murder of one is a blow to the body of Christ’s Church.
What is Christ’s church to do? If that is truly our name and who we are, we must respond like Christ. We must love.
But…let us remember, LOVE, FORGIVENESS, PEACEFULNESS, PATIENCE … is not simply a reaction. This must not be our “fall-back” position. This MUST be our advance strategy. We must be who we say we are. We must be Christ for the world. We must show Christ.
Embrace them God of Love, forgive those who do not know what they do, and strengthen us to show the world a better way…the way of Love.
Gal 5:22f 1 Cor 12: 12 – 31; 13: 1-13 Luke 23:34
