This Homecoming Sunday service I provided an opportunity for the congregation to share memories of their ife together. Then I made the connection between memories and seeds sown.
It sorta worked. Though the connection I made could have been more articulate, the connections they made more than covered the distance.
Preaching is never in a void.
Sermon: Community Church of Wilmette
September 24, 2006
I.Stained Glass 1
1.wandering around a bit on Friday...
2.made me think of some things.
II.Homecoming memories
1.congregation shares
III.Memories are signs of relationships...and they are the fruit of scattered seeds.
1.Agriculture and the parable
2.an interlinear interpretation –
1.A Jewish community struggling with itself.
2.we remember what the early church thought
3.This is about what happens on the inside and the outside of the community.
IV.You are the fruit of the 100-fold yield.
V.Stained Glass 2
1.memories of people who were here
2.memories of God in Christ...The Sower
3.These are memories we were asked to claim.
VI.The sower is still at work in this place.
1.Look through the windows.
2.Through these memories you see the world.
VII.The church is a Memory Garden.
Posted by tripp at September 24, 2006 12:25 PM