The Pulpit
Rev. Jim Kellermann
Dear Central Friends and Family:
The intent of the Body of Christ is to proclaim the living word of God in the way we touch the world with grace and love, through our words, our sharing and our action. In living this proclamation we seek to take responsibility to allow God to use us to change the world, to move it toward the fullness of the Realm of God. This is a formidable task for any community of people which is approached only because we recognize that we are only trying to echo, to reflect, to give body to that which the Spirit is already and always doing.
The proclamation of the word is an essential, though small, part of this overall task. In the speaking of the word we always hope to reveal or point to the divine Word which is the context and capacity of God. It is that truth which stands beyond, behind, beneath, and within, every reality. Our words incarnate in small and imperfect ways this Word which is God’s. But in catching the refracted light of God through what we say, and how we live, we trust the Spirit finds an opening into our lives as well as the lives of those who hear and witness.
As pale as the act of preaching, or dancing, or singing or greeting is before the sacred touch of God, we always trust that God’s capacity to use what is offered to make the vital presence known in every life finds in these moments something of value.
May whatever musing, challenge, meditation, and prayer is prompted by the gifts of the sacred community open within you a new capacity to know God.
- Jim Kellermann