“God is your home.”

H,

We need to make the move from the singular to the plural and then to the singular again. This is the whole essence of the Church. It is not the end of individuality but the end of individualism. We must come to community as individuals but make our way as a Church. We may not all think the same thoughts, or hold the same sacraments as vital or agree on doctrine but we are going in the same direction and we share the same home.

There is no longer Jew or Gentile but there is also no longer poor or rich, sick or well, man or woman in the divisive sense. All come must come together and act in one heart: the heart of the creator.

This is not some utopian construct but the people we will forever be and how we will live in eternity. This is what God is doing. This is His Kingdom, the Holy light of all ages.

We are coming together not to be ruled by the whims and temperaments of “anointed” or charismatic men or women but by the love of God shed abroad in our hearts. We eat at the table of grace as equals, all in need of salvation, all being transformed, all connected into the singular by the vastness of our God. We sit at His right hand as one, like Christ and with Christ, the Holy adoption is to make all women and all men children of God in the most direct sense.

The world seems far from this grand picture, I know. This is why we are pilgrims and not earthlings. Things never feel quite right. We are not here to stay. We are on the road home.