Solomon struck two majors chords with your scribe on Sunday. In his children's address he stressed the need to turn the other cheek and pray for one's tormentors. This is so true of the challenges our young face in the environment that is Yeoville
But even more telling was his sermon entitled "Jesus - the friend of sinner." The readings on Sunday were as follows:
Hosea 14 1-7.
Mark 2 13-17
Philemon 1-16
This is the verse from Mark, that really "spoke" to me.
Mark 2:17 Jesus heard them and answered, "People who are well do not need a doctor, but only those who are sick. I have not come to call respectable people, but outcasts."
The Lord's ministry is to the outcasts and there are many of these in Yeoville, indeed in South Africa and the world. As Solomon pointed out in his sermon in the apartheid years the elite did not necessarily see the majority as being in need of saving from a Christian perspective. I have taken note in my worship. It's so easy to be judgmental and move away from what the Lord Jesus preaches.
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