Ite, missa est !

Jesus asks, “But who do you say that I am?” ...and, I imagine him following with, ‘beyond proclaiming that I’m the messiah, what are you actually doing in my name / for my sake... collectively as a church body?’ 

New life in/with Jesus as Christ is a corporal/corporate endeavor, in the best sense of that word – a living body... an expanding ecclesia of inter-functioning parts / all sorts of folk with different traits and talents, all valued and needed for a healthy whole 

Q: what’s your role / part in our life together?

We’re being sent out into the world not only to tell our story

but to demonstrate faith and hope in God’s grace

through intentionally – sometimes outrageously - generous acts

of charitable and reconciling love that loosen

and break open demonic gates

designed to entrap, isolate, and separate us

from our creator and each other. 

[ref: RCL readings for Proper 16, Year A]