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Ordinary 15
What makes people acceptable to God when they die? What is it that we must do to ensure that we are forgiven and our name is written in the great book of life? These are the sorts of questions which have troubled human beings from the beginning of time.
When a lawyer asks this question of Jesus, he asks a question which is on all of our minds. The answer from Jesus is radical and unexpected and it has given to us the most wonderful parable of all 'The Good Samaritan.'
Jesus tells us that what God wants is for us to show the same kind of love to those we do not like as God shows to us. When we do that we will show that we have truly understood what what foregiveness is all about. This might come as a surprise if we thought that God would judge us by how we say our prayers, or how often we attend religious services. Yet it is by such things that we show our faith to be real and not just self indulgence
Read more in this week's Bible Notes
Listen to this week's sermon by Deacon Jane Mason
Read this week's prayers by Mrs Alison Holden
Prayer
Love is your meaning, O Lord. Before ever you made us you loved us. Your love has never slackened nor ever shall. In love all your works have been begun, by love you sustain them and our life in your love is everlasting. So let the beginning and ending of all our loving be to see our God for ever; and this may Jesus grant us. Amen. Julian of Norwich (c.1343-c.1417)
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