Quote for Reflection (Sunday, January 10, 2021)

We often ask, “What is the church to do?” But the prior, more important question is, “What is the church to be?” We are to be a community of faith in the midst of change, and we are to be a community of faith leading change. We are to be a community where people discover that they can depend on God and be enfolded in the love of God even in the midst of such rapid change and transition in their own lives. We are to be a community where people can experience and call upon the sustaining gifts of the Holy Baptism.

“Transforming Congregations” by James Lemler