so that you may know the certainty of the things you have been taught (Luke 1:4)
How can we be certain about our faith? Can we be confident in the teaching we have about Christianity? As we start to look at Luke’s gospels on Sunday mornings, we’ll see that’s exactly why Luke wrote his book. Luke wants his readers to be able to be confident in their faith, so he spent time researching and interviewing the eyewitnesses. As we read Luke, we can be confident that what we read is true.
Just as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. (1 Corinthians 12:12)
What would life be like if we were all the same? God made us all to be different, with different gifts and abilities, and different strengths and weaknesses. We work together as part of a bigger whole just like, as St Paul says, a body. Our need for each other shows God’s goodness at work, and helps us to grow as Christians.
All these are the work of one and the same Spirit (1 Corinthians 12:11)
Unity and diversity are ideals that we aim for, and characteristics that are highly prized. For the next two Sundays, we’ll be looking at how our unity and diversity come from God the Father, through Jesus Christ, and are used by the Holy Spirit for our good and God’s glory.
You would be very welcome to join us at our 10:30am service of Holy Communion in St Andrew, Cuffley, this Sunday. We welcome the Rev’d Tom Lilley (Vicar, St James, Goffs Oak) to take the service. There will be no other services this Sunday.
The shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things they had heard and seen, which were just as they had been told. (Luke 2:20)
This Christmas Morning, in our all-age Christmas Celebration, we will be praising and glorifying God for all we see and hear about the birth of Jesus.