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An Invitation to Worship This Week
September 8, 2024
10:30 a.m.
Jesus was known for healing people as he pointed people to God. This Sunday’s gospel lesson provides two miraculous healing stories. Jesus first hears a request from a mother who wants her daughters to be healed. The woman was an outsider. She was a gentile, a Syrophoenician woman whom Jesus treated with disrespect. She confronts Jesus who has treated her like a dog (in a bad way!) Jesus realizes what he has done, relents and heals the daughter.
In the second healing, the disciples of Jesus bring him a deaf man with a speech impediment. Jesus takes the man away from the crowd in private. Jesus puts his fingers in the man’s ears and also spits on his hand and touches the man’s tongue. The man can hear and can also speak clearly.
People can be hungry for the touch of another human being. Our post-pandemic world has made us even more fearful of personal contact. Who are the untouchables today? Who are the outsiders who are disrespected and ignored like the Syrophoenician woman? Have you ever felt like an invisible untouchable? Hugs, pats on the shoulder, and handshakes can make a difference. How does God call us to appropriately touch and to be in touch with God and with each other? Are we willing to be touched by God? Are their times when God calls us to reach out and touch someone?
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FPC 1793 Book Club
September
Date and time to be announced
James: A Novel
By Percival Everett
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