Thursday, June 29, 2023

Visible

 You can know the depth of a faith community by the level in which they participate, volunteer, take part in, the visible work of the faith community.  Faith is visible, and real, when it is shared in acts of love for one another, for others.  Private faith is the tomb of a community.  A parish fails when it has no active members.  Going to church worship as the level of investment, or putting money into a collection basket won't breathe life into a parish or a community of worship.  Take a lesson from AA.  Meetings flourish or die depending on the level of volunteers to do all the work that makes a meeting.  Meetings are autonomous.  There is no big organization or upper level management to keep things going.  AA wants to be visible though anonymous.  No one volunteers for notoriety.  They had enough of that when they were drunks.  Belief in a higher power does not sustain if one only sits at home reading their spiritual or program literature.  

1 comment:

  1. Very good Faith without works is dead. James 2:17

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