Virtual Methodist

During my reading this week I came across this short quote from Kierkegaard: "...the neighbour is eternity's mark on every human being." Soren Kierkegaard It prompted this short prayer/poem: God help me discern in my enemy, your image; in the unlovely and unlovable, my own reflection; in the poor and oppressed, your presence; on the powerful and oppressors, your fingerprints; and in everyone, those near and far, like me, and unlike me, those who like me and those I don't like, eternity's mark. Shalom

A call to worship and act of corporate confession based around the Shema (Hebrew for "Hear..."), which is the call to worship in Jewish Synagogues (Deuteronomy 6: 4-5), and Jesus' incorporation of this in what he described as the 2 greatest commands in the Law. Hear, O Israel the Lord our God, the Lord is one. Which is the greatest commandment in God’s Law? 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind' The second is? Love your neighbour as yourself. All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments. There is no commandment greater than these. From Matt 22:36-40, Mark 12:29-31 and Luke 10:27-28 Response O Lord our God, the one and only We confess before you our lack of love. We have not loved you as we should. We have not loved others as we love ourselves. We have been self-centred and self-satisfied. Yet out of your eternal love for us you sent your son To show us how to love and to ...