Rev Bill

I’ve posted today’s sermon on my Sermon Blog. It’s based on Acts 2:42-47 and 1 Corinthians 12 — is the third in my “Let’s Be The Church God Wants Us TO Be” series — and entitled “Let’s Be A Church That Works Together”.

Here’s a portion of it:

One of my favorite things to do on Sunday as a kid was to read the Sunday comics (or the funnies as we called them). Of all the comics I read, the one that I never missed was Peanuts. In one of those cartoons, Lucy came into the room and demanded that Linus change the channel on the TV.

“What makes you think you can walk right in here and take over?” asked Linus.
“These five fingers,” replied Lucy.
“Individually they’re nothing, but when I curl them together like this into a single unit, they form a weapon that is terrible to behold.”
“Which channel do you want?” asked Linus.
Turning away, he looked at his fingers and said, “Why can’t you guys get organized like that?”

While I don’t condone Lucy’s methods, however effective they might have been, she does give us a powerful illustration of what might happen if we here at Hopewell Presbyterian were to work together.
Remember what she said: “Individually they’re nothing but when I curl them together like this into a single unit, they form a weapon that is terrible to behold.”
It is when we come together – it is when we work together — that we become an effective instrument to be used in the world for the glory of God – and that is a wonderful thing to behold!

You can read the sermon here.

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