This Sunday we will continue our sermon series on the Covenant Mission Statement as we think about the 2nd part of that mission: “To cultivate a personal relationship with God.”
I talk to people a lot about their relationships. It’s just part of what a pastor does. There are those seeking guidance to find a good relationship, those seeking advice on how to better the relationship they have, and of course those trying to get out of a relationship.
A common trait that I have discovered in all of these conversations about relationships is that they also affect how people relate to God. And, of course, ninety-nine percent of the time that we conflate our human relationships with our relationship with God, God is shortchanged.
We project others’ failures as humans onto our concept of God’s relationship with us as humans. We begin to think that we have to put on our best face in our relationship with God as we do in our human relationships with others. We don’t!!!!
God loves and is interested in the real me and the real you, not the fake/perfect me or you that we so often try to project to others. God already knows the real me, with all my faults, challenges, struggles and foibles, and God still loves me. Same for you! And, most importantly, God invites me and you to say yes and cultivate a relationship with this God who loves and cares for me and you.
If we concentrate on saying yes to this invitation of a personal relationship with God; if we imitate Jesus’ example of service; and then if we share with others how to cultivate this relationship with God, we will indeed be living into this 2nd phase of our Covenant mission.
Join us this Sunday for worship at Covenant as we consider a more detailed way of living out our Mission. The sermon is “The Mission – Part 2: To Cultivate A Relationship With God,” based on Psalms 130:3-4,7 and Psalm 34:406, and I King
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