This week (September 26), we will be meeting back in the Havener Atrium to discuss ways to actively love our neighbors. It’s not enough to say you love someone in the abstract; we are called to service. We will talk about some organizations in Rolla and where we (individually or collectively) might fit into them. I leave you with Jesus’s mission statement, in which he quotes Isaiah 61:1-2:
16 When he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, he went to the synagogue on the sabbath day, as was his custom. He stood up to read, 17 and the scroll of the prophet Isaiah was given to him. He unrolled the scroll and found the place where it was written:
Luke 4:16-21
18 “The Spirit of the Lord is upon me,
because he has anointed me
to bring good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives
and recovery of sight to the blind,
to let the oppressed go free,
19 to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favor.”
20 And he rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him. 21 Then he began to say to them, “Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.”