Crossing Boundaries for Love (a sermon for Wednesday in the first week of Lent)

03/14/19 • 12 min

he clearest definition I’ve ever heard for the mission of God is this: Crossing boundaries for love.

Bishop Holly did that his whole life. He was a priest and a bishop and a missionary that crossed boundaries, literally and figuratively. That’s why we remember him today.

Philip did that, when he listened to the Spirit’s call to to cross a boundary and engage in conversation with the Ethiopian.

Lent...and this journey to Good Friday and Easter...is a reminder that Jesus crossed crossed the ultimate boundary...between heaven and earth...for love.

So, I ask you? Where do you see boundaries in your community? In your church? In your own life?

And what boundaries are you willing to cross for love?

he clearest definition I’ve ever heard for the mission of God is this: Crossing boundaries for love.

Bishop Holly did that his whole life. He was a priest and a bishop and a missionary that crossed boundaries, literally and figuratively. That’s why we remember him today.

Philip did that, when he listened to the Spirit’s call to to cross a boundary and engage in conversation with the Ethiopian.

Lent...and this journey to Good Friday and Easter...is a reminder that Jesus crossed crossed the ultimate boundary...between heaven and earth...for love.

So, I ask you? Where do you see boundaries in your community? In your church? In your own life?

And what boundaries are you willing to cross for love?

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