As Imago moves through the season of Pentecost, a time in the church calendar for exploring how the Spirit of God transforms apparent weaknesses into power, today let us worship God for the power He brings through language.
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Imago, John’s Gospel reveals that Christ is the Word of God and it tells us that it is through him and by him that all things were made. Words were pushed through the lips of God into an empty space . . . a vague nothingness . . . and something happened. Light flashed and darted into the world. Through a single word the soot and marrow of the earth jointed together . . . the blood and patter of life stirred. A word was uttered and mankind bloomed into the Image of God.
We understand that the confusion of the Tower of Babel is being undone by the reverberating power of Pentecost. The day when the Holy Spirit rushed down as fire upon a Christ centered community and animated it with a new language, a new story. Paul tells us that this new language, that this new story cultivates things like love and joy, peace and patience, goodness and kindness, things like faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Imago, this is our story. This is our identity . . . that of being salt and light to the earth. Of bringing comfort to the sufferer. Of providing food to the poor. We are a people of turning low things high and high things low.
We will soon be partakers in the sacred ceremony called communion. A grand remembering of our story. Where we will consume the Living God through the emblems of Bread and Wine. l call you to begin this communion now through song. And so may the Spirit of God transform our modest mouth-pieces into majestic declarative instruments of worship. I call you, a-court-of-noble-story-tel
-e.p.allen
Imago, John’s Gospel reveals that Christ is the Word of God and it tells us that it is through him and by him that all things were made. Words were pushed through the lips of God into an empty space . . . a vague nothingness . . . and something happened. Light flashed and darted into the world. Through a single word the soot and marrow of the earth jointed together . . . the blood and patter of life stirred. A word was uttered and mankind bloomed into the Image of God.
We understand that the confusion of the Tower of Babel is being undone by the reverberating power of Pentecost. The day when the Holy Spirit rushed down as fire upon a Christ centered community and animated it with a new language, a new story. Paul tells us that this new language, that this new story cultivates things like love and joy, peace and patience, goodness and kindness, things like faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
Imago, this is our story. This is our identity . . . that of being salt and light to the earth. Of bringing comfort to the sufferer. Of providing food to the poor. We are a people of turning low things high and high things low.
We will soon be partakers in the sacred ceremony called communion. A grand remembering of our story. Where we will consume the Living God through the emblems of Bread and Wine. l call you to begin this communion now through song. And so may the Spirit of God transform our modest mouth-pieces into majestic declarative instruments of worship. I call you, a-court-of-noble-story-tel
-e.p.allen
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