Imagine the People of God: Recent Episodes
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The words of our theme song, “Imagine, imagine the people of God...” point us to an innate gift
we are share from God–the gift of imagination. Made in the image of God, we are endowed with
the ability to create, to dream, to re-form and form a new and right way of being with each other.
In this first week of our series, we will affirm this beautiful gift and begin to “imagine the
extravagant dimensions of Christ’s love” in our communities.
Our last worship experience in this series invites us to reflect on the fruits of our imagining the
“kin-dom of God”–the family of God–in right relationship. What does it look like to be a
community who is “ believing, receiving, becoming God’s love,” and who can sing with
exuberance, “we are your people, O God!” Our scripture from Galatians offers up an image of
what this looks like and we offer our lives in “loyal commitment” to this vision.
Our theme song continues with an image of a community of compassion, “caring, sharing God’s
love in the world.” Indeed, from the early Hebrew practices of leaving the gleanings of harvest
for the poor, to Jesus’ commission to care for “the least of these,” compassion is the true measure
of a community as the Body of Christ. The scriptures ask us, “is your heart tender and
compassionate?” What will be answer? And what will we discover about how good life can be
when compassion is at our core?
UM ARMY Sunday is the Sunday where the First UMC of Torrington celebrate the works of UM ARMY with witnesses from past and current UM ARMY Attendees.
Just because we can imagine the people of God as the idyllic description of our theme song, does not mean that we are there yet! These words from the song, “seeking the way of Jesus Christ, trusting the courage to change,” remind us that this is a process of moving in the direction of a better community. The good news is that we are not just endowed with imagination, but we can rely on the courage God gives us to be the change we want to see in the world.