Lent Week 3: Being Who God has Made Us to Be

Lent Week 3
Join us for Canon Tim Clayton's sermon:
Being Who God has Made Us to Be

This Lent Season we are talking about healing the flaws, schisms and tears within us.

Week 1- How do we heal our inner flaws and become a more whole person, as God intended us to be.
Week 2 - How prayer helps us to heal.
Week 3 - Can we always be the same person? Am I consistent in who God has made me to be? Or do I act differently, depending on the situation?

God wants to help us get free from those things that have harmed us.
The God we follow is incarnate. He walked on the earth and interacted with us in many different circumstances and he was always the same; fully God and fully human. We sometimes have challenges that keep us from being ourselves, and being who God has made us to be.

How do we be the body of Christ? How can we care for the earth, its creatures, and our neighbors?

From our gospel in Matthew 23:
Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat; therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others; but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them. They do all their deeds to be seen by others; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long. They love to have the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues, and to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and to have people call them rabbi.

But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all students. And call no one your father on earth, for you have one Father—the one in heaven. Nor are you to be called instructors, for you have one instructor, the Messiah. The greatest among you will be your servant. All who exalt themselves will be humbled, and all who humble themselves will be exalted.

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in, you stop them. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cross sea and land to make a single convert, and you make the new convert twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

How can we simply be who God has called us to be, day by day, moment by moment?

We pray that you would know the goodness of God, revealed to us in Christ Jesus.

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May the peace of God be with you today.