This week marks the end of our house church experience during the season of Lent. We have studied and discussed papers that were instrumental in shaping the life and mission of PVCC when the church began in 1966, almost 50 years ago. We feel the influence of these studies even today.
Our final paper was H. Richard Niebuhr’s “The church as social pioneer.” He suggests that just as science is a social pioneer responding to patterns of rationality, and artists are pioneers responding to beauty, that church pioneers are responding to the divine mission of faithful love. We have much to learn about how about to directly demonstrate to others the reality of divine love. Therefore, we have to tell the story in church, so that we can live the story in the world.
Holy Week is a time in the church year when we participate in rehearsing the story of God’s love for the world in a particularly powerful way. As we share in the events of this week, we are grounded more deeply in the good news that there is no power on earth that is equal to the power of God’s love as it is revealed to us in the life, death and resurrection of Jesus. Join us for worship on Palm Sunday, Maundy Thursday and Easter morning.
Blessings, David