Sunday, February 08, 2009

Our Mission

Continuing in the woods of Sonoma County in the tiny town of Camp Meeker, we are enjoying our time at Saint Dorothy's Rest (staying in Lydia House, pictured here) and thinking about our mission. We ironed out a lot of specifics yesterday (besides enjoying some delicous French Toast, huge baked potatoes will many toppings choices, and wonderful pasta). This morning, Saint Paul gives an assist in his first letter to the Church at Corinth. The appointed epistle for todays says:

If I proclaim the gospel, this gives me no ground for boasting, for an obligation is laid on me, and woe to me if I do not proclaim the gospel! For if I do this of my own will, I have a reward; but if not of my own will, I am entrusted with a commission. What then is my reward? Just this: that in my proclamation I may make the gospel free of charge, so as not to make full use of my rights in the gospel.

For though I am free with respect to all, I have made myself a slave to all, so that I might win more of them. To the Jews I became as a Jew, in order to win Jews. To those under the law I became as one under the law (though I myself am not under the law) so that I might win those under the law. To those outside the law I became as one outside the law (though I am not free from God's law but am under Christ's law) so that I might win those outside the law. To the weak I became weak, so that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all people, that I might by all means save some. I do it all for the sake of the gospel, so that I may share in its blessings

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