Where Worship Meets Your World (pt. 3)

As we considered the words of Jesus, that the first and greatest command is to "love the Lord your God" with all that you are (Matt. 22:37), we also saw how He continued that the second is integral to the first, "Love your neighbor as yourself" (Matt. 22:39).

I am enjoying Eugene Peterson's new book 'Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places' right now. Here is a slice that I read just this morning: "The hardest thing to believe is that God's work - this dazzling creation, this astonishing salvation, this cascade of blessings - is all being worked out in and under the conditions of our humanity; at picnics, around dinner tables, in conversations, and while walking along roads, in puzzled questions and homely stories, with blind beggars, supperating lepers and at weddings and funerals."

What Jesus does takes place in and thru us. It is presently taking place in our neighborhoods, at our offices, in our schools, among our family and friendly gatherings and among the people whose names we know. This is 'personal ministry'.