Sermon why are you here

Seuss gives an insight:. You might be a fish or a toad in the tree. You might be a doorknob or three baked potatoes. But you—you are you. If I say so myself, happy birthday to me! Why are you here? Because God wants you here. God has created you to be you and not somebody else.

We read in Genesis:. God created humankind in his image, in the image of God he created them, male and female he created them. God blessed them. You are a special creation of God; you are a blessing of God. You are more than a fish or a toad or a clam, you are the very image of God. Woman or man, young or old, happy or sad, you are here because God wants you to be here.

You are here because God put you here. On the other hand, we may wonder at times what God has in mind with us. Read the newspaper, turn on the TV. Contributed by Ronnie Mcneill on Mar 18, message contributor based on 19 ratings. Development: Point Number One: Having Misconceptions Going back to the time of the Passover Feast, according to the great Jewish historian, Josephus, this was a time of excitement and tens of thousands of people from all over the world gathered to partake in such a festive occasion.

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Less than a year? Are you here for the first time, visiting? I have a request for you. Please come back, and ask a friend to come with you! Just as it was conversation that changed lives long ago, we trust the same is true today: all churches will invite visitors back but this invitation for each of us to take, whether we are new or longstanding here, is to join us at a special time of regeneration, to be new as I am new, to grow in qualities and share in a journey none of us can control or predict, as God is at work.

Members old and new, we shall listen to the Spirit of God, moving us in conversations, friendships and service. Did you notice that it was a meeting of old and new in the dramatic story of the Acts of the Apostles we read today: the Ethiopian official in his chariot invites a complete stranger to sit with him and discuss God.

What a surprise, even shock, it must have been for this pilgrim to find his reading of the ancient text of Isaiah provokes a bold confident interruption from Philip. We have no explanation why the Ethiopian official is already dedicated to the Jewish religion. But his identity as a foreigner and a eunuch is significant. For all his devotion, he could never enter the heart of the Temple to which he made pilgrimage.

The nearer he was, the more conscious he would have been of being excluded, limited to the outer Temple precinct, the court of the Gentiles. Going home, reflecting, it was comforting to turn to Isaiah, because it has a bigger vision of global inclusion: then Philip arrives, not the Apostle, but a Christian chosen to take the story of Jesus to Samaria.