Palm Sunday
As we move into the last week of the Live Life Love Lent series (www.livelent.net) the focus turns, in Holy Week, towards God. As we have been looking outwards for the past six weeks, so now we start to focus on God and our relationship with him.
The action today is to read about what happened on Palm Sunday. I was really glad to be able to do this today through the service in my local church. Of course we were focussing on Palm Sunday, but it was done with a really lovely twist this year. Our Sunday School acted out the gospel reading today and showed some of the excitement that we can imagine accompanied Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem.
This was followed up by our vicar talking through the story with all the children at his feet. As you can imagine, with a group of children they didn’t always answer his questions in the way that he imagined – sometimes with hilarious effect.
In all, it just felt like church should do – all of us were, I think, touched at many different levels by the messages we heard today. All of us went away, carrying our prayers of hope to take forward this week. One thing I must just mention is that one of our congregation was commissioned as a Street Pastor on Friday night – to work with those who are out and about in Lincoln on an evening. This is great work, being done selflessly, by a group of volunteers, who are backed up by a team of prayer supporters. I have nothing but admiration for all of them, and the great work that they are doing to be relevant Christians to today’s world………
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