Sermons From Good Shepherd Lutheran Church In Raleigh, Nc

Reading - Revelation 3:20 When we gather around this communion table and receive bread and wine the way Jesus told us to do, it’s that kind of a moment. It’s a kiss of love from the God who by all accounts is far too good for us. It’s the keys to a car that we aren’t sure we’re qualified to be driving. It’s the thing that shows us that we are more than we know. Because even though these are ordinary things: the kiss, the car, the job, the mountain, the baby, the house, the solo, the business, the bread, the wine – we know that they are not really ordinary. With this bread and wine, Jesus welcomes us. We are invited. There is a place for us. And we are wanted, by the God who knows everything about us...but sees that there is more than even we know. And in that welcome, in that wanting, Jesus draws a welcome out of us, showing us how to welcome others.