The Sixth Sunday After Epiphany

Welcome to worship on this Sixth Sunday after the Epiphany! During the Epiphany Season the Scriptures, hymns and collects point to Jesus revealed publicly as the Son of God: through His miracles, the authority of His preaching, and the testimony of others. With Epiphany's further emphasis on extending Christ's kingdom to all nations through missions, the liturgical color of green is used to symbolize such growth.

We also continue our sermon series, "Are You My Neighbor?" We often hear and even speak the command “Love your neighbor.” But what does this mean? How well do we show love to the people we come into contact with at the grocery store, on the highway, at work, or even on social media? How do we treat those different from us, those who deliberately wrong us, or those who seek to harm either our reputation, our person or those we care about? Loving your neighbor can be tricky. Jesus gave many examples of how to show love to others through His teachings, healings, and interactions during His earthly ministry. In this series, we will look at His example to learn how to love those around us as we ask the question, “Are you my neighbor?”

Todays Message will focus on Luke 5:27-32, 6:12-16

27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, “Follow me.” 28 So, leaving everything behind, he got up and began to follow him.

29 Then Levi hosted a grand banquet for him at his house. Now there was a large crowd of tax collectors and others who were reclining at the table with them. 30 But the Pharisees and their scribes were complaining to his disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

31 Jesus replied to them, “It is not those who are healthy who need a doctor, but those who are sick. 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.”

12 During those days he went out to the mountain to pray and spent all night in prayer to God. 13 When daylight came, he summoned his disciples, and he chose twelve of them, whom he also named apostles: 14 Simon, whom he also named Peter, and Andrew his brother; James and John; Philip and Bartholomew; 15 Matthew and Thomas; James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called the Zealot; 16 Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor.