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Jock Stein August 22, 2024 5 4

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Matthew 5: 14-16 (NRSVA)

14 ‘You are the light of the world. A city built on a hill cannot be hidden. 15 No one after lighting a lamp puts it under the bushel basket, but on the lampstand, and it gives light to all in the house. 16 In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.

I don’t think Jesus would have liked Calvin’s metaphor of the ‘invisible church’. We are light, in the world, and visible. It’s easy to pick holes in the light, to complain about the church, to lament the lack of Christian witness in politics or whatever. Jesus has gathered his friends around him and tells them, ‘You are the light – so go and shine!’ He is saying just the same today. Good works, not just good words.

Prayer:

Lord, let there be light, and let there be people of the light

    in public life

    in commerce and industry

    in agriculture and rural life

    among the low-born

    among the high-flying

    shaping the media of our age

    influencing young people

    in all the arts

    in my own life

this day and always. Amen.