Sunday Reflection (October 2, 2022)
Think of the Holy Spirit as the transmission that transfers energy from the engine to the wheels. The engine is the story of God’s love and compassion revealed in Jesus Christ, and the wheels are Christ’s Church empowered by the Holy Spirit to embody and share God’s love and compassion with the world. For almost 2,000 years, this one, apostolic, catholic, Church has transmitted and continues to transmit the story of God’s love revealed in Jesus Christ. Christ’s Church will continue to do so until Christ comes again.
Christ’s Church is Apostolic in that the Apostles and all the generations of Christians before us passed this message to us. Christ’s Church is catholic in that it is universal throughout the world of which we and the Roman Catholic Church are a part as well as Baptists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals, Episcopalians, Lutherans, and so forth. All Churches have the Holy Spirit dwelling within them and among them to transmit the story of God’s love in word and deed. May we embody this message (2 Timothy 1:11-14).
