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Spiritual AND Religious - Part III

11/23/2014

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Jesus said: “I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me.” Matthew 25:35-36

We have come to the last Sunday of the Church year;next week we’ll begin a new season and a new year. While this is the Last Sunday after Pentecost, we often refer to it as the Sunday of Christ the King, or the Reign of Christ, reminding ourselves through our Scripture readings and our hymns that, when all is said and done, it is Christ who is the Lord of all creation, humanity and space-time. The very same Jesus who lived and taught, and suffered and died, rose to new life and ascended into heaven before he sent the Holy Spirit, is the One we call Lord, Kyrios in Greek, the Christ, Anointed One, Messiah – the One whose judgment is for the good of all that God has created.

Today’s sermon is also the third and last in our series that has looked at the practices of Christian religion that the Church has given to us as a means of structuring and supporting our love of God and love of neighbor. True religion, remember, is never divorced from spirituality – which is our relationship with God - but holds and enhances it, and encourages us to grow in faith, trust, and action.If we separate religion from spirituality we eventually get two lesser entities:     religious forms alone become dry and potentially legalistic;spirituality alone can become individualistic, formless and vague,disconnected from our neighbor and our actions towards him or her, and disconnected from the larger community of faith through history and throughout the world.

To remind ourselves, there are four basic practices that the Church has given us:

1. Corporate worship – the importance of gathering with other Christians on a regular basis to pray, listen to Scripture together, affirm our faith and trust in God, offer our thanks, celebrate the sacraments, and offer our praise in words and music.

2. Daily prayer and Bible reading – whether we use the Prayer Book, Forward Day by Day or some other devotional, or some other regular practice, we do well when we connect to God on a daily basis, bringing the concerns and joys of our hearts to God, and asking for guidance, wisdom, forgiveness and strength.

3. Stewardship – acknowledging that all we have and all that makes life worth living is a gift of our good and generous God, and that we are merely care-takers of what we have been given, and that it pleases God and brings him joy when we offer some of it back to him to be used for the work of God’s Kingdom.

4. And finally, works of mercy and justice.

We hear that laid out very clearly in the parable Jesus has told in today’s Gospel, which often gets called the Parable of the Sheep and the Goats; it’s also sometimes called the Judgment of the Nations. Just as in the other Gospel readings for the last three weeks, in Matthew’s narrative sequence we are in now Holy Week. Jesus has been teaching in the Temple and this is his final word to the crowds; the next day will be Maundy Thursday with the Last Supper and Jesus’ arrest. And he is saying to any who will listen that God’s judgment will be about what you do and why you do it; you can’t separate those two things, just like religion and spirituality can’t be separated.

The image of the king as shepherd sorting out the sheep and goats is deeply grounded in the Old Testament understanding of God as shepherd to God’s People, and of David as the human Shepherd-King who, for all his flaws, strove to be a faithful servant of Yahweh, who is the true King and Shepherd.

The criterion the king uses in the parable is mercy and works of compassion: “Come, you that are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world; for I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me… Truly I tell you, just as you did it to one of the least of these     who are members of my family, you did it to me.”

Jesus is saying that whenever we care for the poor, the needy, the oppressed, the powerless we are caring for Jesus himself; Mother Theresa used to call it “recognizing Christ in all his most distressing disguises.” Caring for others in their need is a way of ministering to God, of expressing our thanks and gratitude, a way of entering into Jesus’ own compassion for the world, which he expressed most fully in his Crucifixion. This is a fundamental Christian practice, one that the Church from the very beginning has identified as a healthy and authentic living out our Christian faith, and at the same time a vehicle for developing faith.

But let’s be clear; works of mercy and compassion are not about being Lord or Lady Bountiful, bestowing upon some lesser person something that really requires little of you. Compassion literally means “to suffer with;” compassionate action means that in some way you make yourself vulnerable to what the other person is going through, you don’t wall yourself off from their pain (but neither do you get lost in it), and you keep the door open to you being changed by your interaction –
allowing the Holy Spirit to flow between you.

That is, in part, what that element of surprise in the parable is all about – when the righteous ones were surprised by the king’s judgment of the worthiness of their actions; we never know in what ways the Holy Spirit will use what we do and the way we offer ourselves to bless others and to give glory to God.

The other aspect of this practice that the Church has given us as a fundamental structure of Christian religion is working for justice. It is the twin of works of mercy, which are often on a one-to-one, personal level. Justice is more often about working to create the kind of social fabric that reflects God’s goodness in the world, than it is something done for an individual.

While God’s justice sometimes doesn’t seem to equal fairness as we understand it on a secular level, it is deeper and broader than mere fairness. The prophets of the Old Testament consistently call the people, and especially their leaders, to the exercise of justice so that the poor, orphaned, widowed, and aliens in the land will not be trampled by the rich, the powerful, and the self-satisfied.

As we heard God say about his people in Ezekiel, using the imagery of a flock of sheep: “I will seek the lost, and I will bring back the strayed, and I will bind up the injured, and I will strengthen the weak, but the fat and the strong I will destroy. I will feed them with justice… I myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep. Because you pushed with flank and shoulder, and butted at all the weak animals with your horns until you scattered them far and wide, I will save my flock, and they shall no longer be ravaged; and I will judge between sheep and sheep.”

Justice is about creating and supporting the common good for all people, and justice and mercy are what we committed to in the Baptismal Covenant:“Will you seek and serve Christ in all persons, loving your neighbor as yourself?” and “Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being?” Our answer to those two questions is: I will, with God’s help.

Another way to think of works of justice and mercy is being God’s hands and feet in the world; Jesus is our heart and head, and we as the Body of Christ reach out to others, and make a difference in their lives, in the world, and for the Kingdom of God, knowing that what we do will be limited by our finite humanity, but will be a vehicle for all the goodness and fullness of God in ways that we may never know or even imagine.

So… corporate worship, daily prayer and Bible reading, stewardship, works of mercy and justice – these are the practices of our religion that are like the ligaments that hold us together as the Body of Christ and that provide both a container for and an expression of our personal relationship with the Living God, the Creator of the Universe, the Lord of heaven and earth, the Savior of humankind.

That’s what it means to be a Christian – loving God with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our mind, and with all our strength, and loving our neighbor as ourselves; we can do no less. Thanks be to God.

Let us pray.

Lord, make us instruments of your peace. Where there is hatred, let us sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that we may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.~ BCP, Prayer of St. Francis

Victoria Geer McGrath
All Saints’ Church, Millington, NJ
Last Sunday after Pentecost/Christ the King
November 23, 2014
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Spiritual AND Religious - Part II

11/23/2014

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His master said to him, "Well done, good and trustworthy slave; you have been trustworthy in a few things, I will put you in charge of many things; enter into the joy of your master.” Matthew 25:21

Last week we began a three-part sermon series on the meaning of religion – religion as a rule of life, religion as a way of ordering your faithful response to God, religion as a way of putting a helpful structure around your spirituality, a container for your experience of and relationship with God. We outlined four aspects of Christian religion that the Church, over time, has found to be most useful to us in our practice of faith. The four elements are corporate worship, daily prayer and Bible reading, stewardship, and works of mercy and justice. Last week we focused on corporate worship – gathering with other Christians as the Body of Christ (corpus) to praise God, be fed by Scripture and sacraments, and have our spiritual “reset” button pushed. Next week we’ll think about works of mercy and justice.

Today our topic is daily prayer and Bible reading, as well as stewardship.

But first I want to set the scene with the Gospel parable Jesus tells. It’s usually referred to as the Parable of the Talents, and right away we need to get something clear – this is one of those items that comes under the heading of “Things you want to ask a Biblical scholar.” A talent in the New Testament has nothing to do with abilities or things you are good at, like math or music or sports. A talent is a unit of money – in fact it’s a very large unit of money, equal to 15 years of a laborer’s wage. In modern-day terms, assuming the current New Jersey minimum wage of $8.25 an hour, one talent would be equal to $247, 00. That means we could say that the master gave one of his household servants $247,500; to another $455,000; and to another $1,037,500 – an incredible amount of money!

So right away we know that this is not some sort of morality tale or allegory that Jesus is telling; instead, he’s trying to get a point across about what the kingdom of God is like. For our purposes today, Jesus is saying that we each have been given resources – spiritual, personal, financial – that we will be asked to account for and return to God when the Kingdom comes in all its fullness.. Just like last week’s parable, this one bears a lot of study and digging and asking questions of; but for today I want us to reflect on what we do with the resources that God has given us – especially the resources of our faith.

We know that in traditional Islam, the faithful are told to pray five times daily; in Orthodox Judaism prayer is required three times a day. What about Christians? How often should we pray? When and how? There are lots of answers to that question, but for today I’ll give you the Episcopal answer: pray continually – that’s what St. Paul says just a few verses on from the end of our second reading (1 Thessalonians 5:16-17).

Whoah; how can I do that?! I don’t have that kind of time, or even inclination; not happening! OK, take a breath, and remember that there is a great stream of prayer that is going continually throughout the world from Christians and churches everywhere; somewhere, someone is always praying, whether formally or informally. And whenever we pray, we step into that great stream of faithful, continuous prayer; and our goal is to grow in awareness of that prayer and praise going on all the time.

Having said that, there are some very helpful, structured things we can do. At least twice each day, morning and evening, we should offer prayer to God and put ourselves in a position of listening to God by reading the Bible or some other spiritual writing.
When we wake, we give thanks to God for the day, we offer up what will be before us, we remember Jesus’ resurrection which took place in the early morning hours; we ask for strength, guidance and wisdom; we ask God to use us to be a blessing to others; we pray for the world and to remain aware of Christ’s presence always.

In the evening, we give thanks for what has been, even as we review our day and ask forgiveness for the places where we have fallen short; we remember that God is in charge, even as we sleep, and commend to God’s care all those we love, and all the things that worry us, remembering that Christ is always our light in the darkness.

Now there are lots of ways to do this, and many of you do it already – you can use Forward Day By Day, or some other devotional; you can follow the Prayer Book Daily Lectionary as printed in the back of the BCP or on-line. Some mix of using your own words as well as fixed forms of prayer probably works best – include the Lord’s Prayer, a Psalm, perhaps a favorite collect or canticle.
Take out the Prayer Book and turn to page 137, and you will see a very short form of structured prayer for morning, noontime, early evening, and bedtime; choose one this coming week and try it out for seven days: just what is printed there, nothing more besides your own particular prayer concerns.

The hardest thing, of course, is time, which most of us never seem to have enough of. If that is true for you, you can still pray: in the car, on the train, waiting on line at Shop-Rite, waiting to pick your child up from school, waiting for a doctor’s appointment, while you are doing yard work or washing the dishes. You already know the Lord’s Prayer, and you can easily add your own; and if your time is severely limited, here a prayer that anyone can say: “I praise my God this day. I give myself to God this day. I ask God to help me this day.”

What matters is that you find a way to connect to God each day, to step into that stream of continual prayer, and do it in a structured way that doesn’t leave you floundering on your own. Prayer is the way we recharge our batteries, that we refocus on God; it’s also the way we develop the spiritual resources that God has given us. It’s as though God has planted us seed in us that will grow, eventually and over time, but will be a much healthier, abundant and fruitful plant if we give it the sun and water of daily prayer and Bible reading.

As Christians we have another element to our structured religious practices that helps us to grown in our love of God and love of neighbor – and that is stewardship. There are two short definitions of stewardship: Stewardship is everything we do after we say “I believe”, AND Stewardship is all that we do, with all that we have, all, of the time. The point, of course, is that everything that we have has been given to us by a good and generous God, but that we don’t own it; it all belongs to God, and we are simply the caretakers, the stewards of what we have been given.

With that in mind, we need to use what we have wisely and well, and we also give some of it back to God for the work of God’s Kingdom. In part, it’s a structured way of sharing, of acknowledging that there are other people in the world besides ourselves, and that we live by God’s grace, not only by our own efforts.

Perhaps the most obvious or easily identifiable form of stewardship is the decision to set aside a percentage of your income to give back to God, and then offer it for God’s work – usually through the Church, but also for other ways and projects where you see the Spirit of God working to bring reconciliation, mercy and wholeness to the world. In these days of EFT and on-line giving, we are perhaps a little less connected to a weekly sense of offering than in the past, but every time and offering is made in Church – money, food, music, bread and wine – we remember that the most important thing we are offering is ourselves; as the Rite I Eucharistic Prayer says: “And here we offer and present unto thee, O Lord, our selves, our souls and bodies, to be a reasonable, holy, and living sacrifice unto thee.”

There are other forms of stewardship, as well. As a parish we have been trying to be good stewards of our buildings – to keep them safe and in good repair, so that they may continue to be good and useful resources for doing God’s work. That is true for any of our physical possessions; not to idolize them, but to use them for God’s glory and for the good of God’s people (and that includes us).

The natural world is another gift of God of which we are called to be good stewards. The beauty and inter-connected life that is all around us in trees, rivers, oceans, air, plants, animals, birds, swamps and mountains is God’s creation, and we Christians are engaged in a struggle (along with the rest of the people on Earth), about how we will care for it; what will be the costs; what will be the benefits; what are our responsibilities?

And then there is time, perhaps the most precious commodity of all. How do we use and apportion and order our time so that it reflects our gratitude to God? How can we be good stewards of our time – not just more efficient or effective, but how do we recognize that time is God-given? We start by recognizing that often there are choices to be made, that not everything that seems interesting is something that we will be able to do.

And it helps to remember that all of our electronic devices tell us 24/7 that there is always something else we could or should be doing if we want to be: fit, smart, successful, attractive, etc., etc. But that is, in fact, a lie – and Christian stewardship helps us to put life into perspective, to remember that we are limited, finite human beings; only God is infinite, and we make ourselves crazy when we forget that. But it is the temptation of our age, and I fall prey to it all the time: God is infinite, and I am not. Stewardship helps us to recall this in a structured, grateful way.

So…
Spiritual resources – daily prayer and Bible reading, and stewardship; these are two of the practices that the Church has laid out for us as a way to develop and deepen our faith.

When we do these things – however skilled or clumsy or half-hearted we may feel about them – we will be like the servant who has more talents to give to the master upon his return. And when we do so we surely share in God’s joy.

To be continued…..

Let us pray.
Almighty and eternal God, so draw our hearts to thee, so guide our minds, so fill our imaginations, so control our wills, that we may be wholly thine, utterly dedicated unto thee; and then use us, we pray thee, as thou wilt, and always to thy glory and the welfare of thy people; through our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. ~ BCP


Victoria Geer McGrath
All Saints’ Church, Millington, NJ
Twenty-third Sunday after Pentecost
November 16, 2014

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Spiritual AND Religious - Part I

11/23/2014

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Jesus said: Keep awake therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour. Matthew 25:13

I don’t know about you, but I feel like time is just rushing away from me. Hallowe’en has come and gone, last week the Chamber of Commerce in Chatham was already putting up Christmas lights, later this week we’ll hit the mid-month mark for November; where’s the stop button?

In today’s Gospel Jesus tells about a story about what the kingdom of heaven will be like…like bridesmaids waiting, according to first-century custom, for the bridegroom to arrive so they can usher him into the wedding festivities, but he is later than anticipated – much, much later – and so they wait. In fact, they wait so long that they fall asleep, and when the bridegroom finally does arrive in the dead of night, some of them are out of oil for the lamps they are carrying, lamps that will light the way to the party.

Now this is one of those parables that probably doesn’t seem fair to us, because the way Jesus tells it, the bridesmaids who don’t have enough oil he calls foolish, and the wise ones won’t share, and so only the wise ones get to go to the party, while the foolish ones get shut out – even though they have returned with oil for their lamps. Shouldn’t everyone be able to go to the party – particularly if the party is the kingdom of heaven? What is Jesus trying to say here?

A couple of caveats to start with: first of all, we would do well to remember that what Jesus says and does do not always fall into the category of “nice.” Second, this parable is one that could use a lot of digging into and examining from many different angles, and I hope that you will sit with this passage during the week to come and listen for what the Holy Spirit may be saying to you at this particular juncture in your life. Third thing to remember: this is not a story about fairness and justice; it’s a story about spiritual preparedness; Jesus counsels the disciples and those listening to him preach to keep awake so that they can be ready for the coming of the Messiah. Keeping awake, having enough oil in your lamp, having the spiritual resources and reserves to be ready to greet Christ when he shows up in your life that is what I want us to reflect on this morning.

We have all, I am sure, been in that place where we feel like our present circumstances are too much – too hard, too painful, too heavy, going on too long – and we just want the Lord to show up and make things right, or at least better. We know intellectually that God is always with us, that there is nowhere we can go to flee from God’s presence, and yet, it seems like God is taking his sweet time to help us or change things for the better.

All three of our readings today reflect that sense of waiting – of God’s time and our time not being the same.
Joshua addresses the Israelites after they have finally come into the Promised Land – after forty years of wandering in the desert after their initial freedom from slavery – and he calls them to choose which God they will worship, with whom they will make covenant.

Paul, in his letter to the Thessalonians, tries to allay some of their fears about waiting for the return of Christ, and whether or not those Christians who have already died while waiting will miss out when Christ does return. As a side note – the language that Paul uses here, of being caught up in the air, is highly metaphorical imagery that draws on both the Old Testament Book of Daniel and on the practice of the Roman emperor making a visit to a Roman city; we spent a lot of time on this in Bible study a few weeks ago, but if you’d like to ask me about it, catch me at coffee hour.

And then, of course, Jesus’ parable assumes that waiting for the kingdom of heaven is a built-in part of Christian faith and life.
But, of course, we live in an age and place where waiting for anything is anathema to us, and so we really don’t know how to do it; and further, we don’t know what to do with ourselves when we are waiting. We get kind of spiritually drowsy, we don’t know what voices to listen to, or how to judge if what we hear is really God’s truth. We need to replenish our oil, our spiritual reserves, and as Christians we do that most effectively when we can follow some combination of what the Church for centuries has taught – a spiritual prescription, if you will.

So what are those things?

Corporate worship; daily prayer and study; serving others who are in need; caring for ourselves and the world around us, and giving back to God a portion of what he has given us as an offering of praise and thanksgiving; taken together these elements form a rule of life – that what “religion” means – a rule, a pattern, a prescription that will engender spiritual well-being.

Several times last week I had people say to me, when they were explaining why they did not go to church or synagogue: “Religion is for people who are afraid of going to hell; spirituality is for those who have already been there.” I’ve heard this saying lots of times, I understand where it comes from, and there is some truth to it; however, my response is “Yes, but.” Yes, if by “religion” you mean a form that is only about keeping the rules for a distant deity, by whom you will be punished if the rules are broken. But that kind of religion is not Christian faith.

Christianity is about coming into a life-giving and wholistic relationship with God through Jesus that changes us from the inside out and calls us to love God with all our heart, soul, mind and strength, and to love our neighbor as ourselves. Jesus has done this for us, opened the way, taken the initiative through his death and resurrection, and he hopes that we will respond with love and gratitude. But then we are faced with the project of ordering our lives in a way that reflects God’s love and care for us; that’s where the rule of life, the “religion” part comes in; it’s what we promised at our baptism and reaffirm every time we renewal our baptismal vows. This rule of life, this spiritual prescription, this infusion of holy oil is so important that today is part one of a three-part sermon series.

Corporate worship is first and foremost; that has nothing to do with businesses, and everything to do with who we are as the Body (the corpus) of Christ. We come together to worship God – the center of all that we are and all that we do – because we cannot be Christians without one another. Of course there are times when illness, travel, family events, work, and kids’ sports will get in the way, and at those times we can and should pray at home or wherever we are going, perhaps read the Sunday Scriptures (you can find a link to them on our website), hold in prayer not only those on your own personal prayer list, but the parish as well. Our default setting should be gathering with other Christians to worship God on Sunday, the day of resurrection, the Lord’s day.

When we come to church God doesn’t love us any more than he does when we stay away, but through our corporate worship we will begin to love God and our neighbor more and more. t’s a gradual, cumulative process – what the writer Eugene Peterson calls “a long obedience in the same direction” – this business of being formed, over time, more and more into the image of God. When we, as a body, spend time focused on God, hearing from the Bible, singing God’s praises, being fed by the Body and Blood of Christ we become more Christ-like; not better than anyone else, not holier, or wiser or more perfect – but more like Christ than we were before.
Worshiping together also saves from the trap of only praying our own prayers, or reading our favorite Bible passages, or listening to almost-truths that our culture offers us.

Worshiping jolts us out of our own personal rut, and puts us squarely into God’s path. Some Sundays we will leave church feeling uplifted and inspired; we may have a truly awe-some experience or vision of God; that’s great – I hope and pray that happens.
But just as often, probably even moreso, we will come to church tired and cranky; and we may leave tired and maybe a little less cranky – no guarantees – but we will have made room for Jesus in our minds and hearts.

And we’ll also have made room for our neighbor: our literal neighbor, the person sitting in the pew next to us or behind us; the newcomer or visitor who arrives at the door hesitantly, maybe a little fearfully wondering if he or she will find a welcome in this place of worship, let alone find God; what would happen if you or any of us we not here to welcome that newcomer, to offer the peace of Christ, the love of God?

The point here is that worship, and the community that worships together, forms us over time – shapes us, strengthens us, encourages us, helps us practice being Christian so that we can be conduits and agents of Jesus’ love and care out in the world God has made.

So as we wait for the return of Christ, as all Christians have since the Ascension, whenever we wait for God to act, as we wait for God’s time and out time to sync up – we worship, we encourage one another, we re-charge our lamps through Scripture and sacrament and song, we practice our religion, our rule of life, which puts worship front and center.

To be continued….

Let us pray.
Lord of all power and might, who art the author and giver of all good things: Graft in our hearts the love of thy name, increase in us true religion, nourish us with all goodness, and of thy great mercy keep us in the same; through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen. ~ BCP


Victoria Geer McGrath
All Saints’ Church, Millington, NJ
Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost
November 9, 2014

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