Tuesday, February 05, 2008
"Invitation"
The readings for Forum this week come from the "Invitation" section of our book Bread and Wine: Readings for Lent and Easter. Copies of the book are still available at the church - I encourage you to pick one up.
I offer you an exerpt from one of this week's essays for your consideration:
I'll see you Sunday,
Tracy
I offer you an exerpt from one of this week's essays for your consideration:
Forgiveness of sins is what the gospel is all about. Forgiveness of sins is what Christ's death upon the cross is all about. The purpose of Lent is to arouse. To arouse the sense of sin. To arouse a sense of guilt of sin. To arouse the humble contrition for the guilt of sin that makes forgiveness possible. To arouse the sense of gratitude for the forgiveness of sins. To arouse or to motivate the works of love and the work for justice that one does out of gratitude for the forgiveness of one's sins.
To say it again - this time, backward: There is no motivation for works of love without a sense of gratitude, no sense of gratitude without forgiveness, no forgiveness without contrition, no contrition without a sense of guilt, no sense of guilt without a sense of sin.
-Edna Hong
I'll see you Sunday,
Tracy
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