Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Communion Invitation (your response?)

I liked this communion invitation attributed to Gordon Forbes, pastor of United Church of Christ and quoted in an essay by Ian Barber Wholeness In Science And Personal Life in a book called Living The Questions (a tribute to Parker Palmer and his work) by Sam Intrator:

If you know the brokenness of life, its fractures within and its division
without, then you have participated in the broken body of Christ, and you are
invited to share in the breaking of bread.

If you desire to know the love of God that overcomes indifference and
despair, if you desire the reconciliation that overcomes estrangement and
alienation, then you're invited to share the cup of the new covenant.