The Inn - Housing the Holy
The Inn - Housing the Holy
We are reeling from prolonged uncertainty and instability brought on by the pandemic. In the United States alone, millions lost their jobs and are affected by whether or not landlords will evict them from their homes for failure to pay rent. A staggering number of families are food insecure for the first time in their lives. And those who were already on the brink are even less sure how to survive.
And we are all exhausted in some way. Even if it is decision-fatigue. We have problems to address. And so did the Holy Family that night. An oppressive regime had demanded everyone upend their lives and hightail it to their home towns to register for the census–for tax purposes, likely. Mary was on the verge of giving birth and the AirBnB app just wasn’t an option.
Whether they got to town late or for some other reason, they had a housing problem that night. The Innkeeper is a figure of our imaginations. Not referenced in the sacred texts, we assume that since Luke said there was an “inn,” then there must have been an “innkeeper.” Often our stories cast him in a negative light, someone who banished a pregnant woman to where the animals were kept.
But what if, since we are engaging our imaginations anyway, what if he was truly an entrepreneur? Someone who saw a problem and thought, literally, “outside the box” to solve the problem of where Mary could have her child? Instead of thinking “there’s nowhere,” he said to himself first, “there has to be somewhere.”
This worship series was inspired by churches who are asking these kinds of questions.
October 2021
October 2021
DW Mission for October – Care Cupboard
The Care Cupboard Hygiene Pantry is an outreach of First Baptist Church to provide basic hygiene products at no cost to those in need. We can help this community outreach program through donating products, volunteering time, and/or making a monetary donation.
IN OUR PRAYERS
Our nation’s leaders & military, church minister & staff, & regional staff
CARE HOMES/HOMEBOUND – June Dodds, Rutheen Hammack, Londa Metcalf, Doris Drummond, Jean Daetwiler, Mary Lea Ashcraft, Lillian Smith, & June Miller
HEALTH CONCERNS - Carol Fincher, Pete Hughes, Bert Dean, Warren & Mary Koogle, Mike Womeldorff, Erlene Cares, Glenna Randall, Ginger Dixon, Lois Parker, Anne Allen, Marsha Bayless, Barbara Robbins, Suzi Ginn, Shane Gwartney, Iona Shipps, Debbie Nash, Ted Hizey, Reola Mansfield, Terri Thornton, & Roper Blackburn-Campmier
WORLD CONCERNS – Covid-19
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The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) is a community of about 850,000 Christians in 3,800 congregations in the United States and Canada.
Two groups of frontier Christians came together in 1832 to form the foundation of today's Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
They shared the view that people should not be excluded from fellowship in the church because they didn't adhere to a particular human-made creed.
They used to say there is "no creed but Christ." Today's Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) still thinks that way.
We study the Bible to deepen our connection to God through Jesus Christ, and to discover what God wants us to do.