Your one wild and precious life

In her Pentecost Sunday sermon, Denise Kelsall, asks herself what Pentecost means anymore and what it means to be the church. Who is God for us? She wrestles with the questions as Jacob wrestles with his angelic visitor. "So I wonder - what to do? I look around my study and see all the worthy theological tomes and inspirational classics and think they would make a good bonfire. What is the point I ask myself! We come here, we break bread and drink wine together and sing and pray to Jesus, we gather afterwards and catch up then we go home – and I think where does it go from here? We do all the symbolic holy things that have been done for two centuries and I begin to wonder if it makes a difference anymore." Full text at http://www.stmatthews.org.nz/nav.php?sid=328&id=729