Being Good Renters in the Kingdom; Voting is a Way of Producing Kingdom Fruit By Rev Hooker WCS

World Communion Sunday offers congregations a distinctive opportunity to experience Holy Communion in the context of the global community of faith. This year for many of us our community of Faith seems broken. We have had to experience fellowship in new unusual ways.   The first Sunday of October is normally a time when Christians in every culture break bread and pour the cup to remember and affirm Christ as the Head of the Church.   On that day, they remember that they are part of the whole body of believers. Whether shared in a grand cathedral, a mud hut, outside on a hilltop, in a meetinghouse, or in a storefront, or this year in parking lots, Christians celebrate the communion liturgy in as many ways as there are congregations.  World Communion Sunday can be both a profound worship experience and a time for learning more about our wider community of faith.  Many of us in years past have taken the act of breaking the bread and receiving the cup for granted. Very much like the renters in the text. Very much like the tenants in the parable that Jesus told us are so comfortable with the property God has given us we choose to not produce any harvest.  Jesus told this story to point out that many times the persons are given the best land, these folks were on land where they had a landowner who planted a vineyard, put a fence around it, dug a winepress in it, and built a watchtower. In other words, folks that have been given Devine opportunities, given riches and already developed places, with Prepared protection, vital resources, and prebuilt structures yet, refuse to produce fruit.  This year alongside the first week in October being world Communion Sunday it is also the launch of early or absentee voting in South Carolina and other places.   Those who didn’t vote failed to be their brother’s keeper and be responsible civic actors. They need to get it together. They failed to be responsible tenants responsible for renters. They failed to produce a harvest for the blood sweat and tears that their forefathers and foremothers March and died for.  But there is still hope I want to leave you with four tips for tenants/renters and maybe inspire some none voters this year this world Communion Sunday to become good tenants/renters. I’ll let you go about your day after I tell you that in the text Mathew 21:33-46 what Jesus was saying was God has given humanity every thang you need to bare/produce fruit in the kingdom of God.   What I hear in the text is God has given you everything Black People,  God has given you America everything you need to vote.   So instead of doing as they did in the Old Testament Bible and in the New Testament bible and killing all the prophets that spoke and taught justice, love, and righteousness. Instead of killing the owner's son Jesus, what we need to do is when harvest time comes we need to Produce Fruit. When Election time Comes we need to Vote.