Our little church has come alive again. But I think most important of all, we have learned what it means to be a church - to be a congregation of God's children doing the Lord's work in this world. We would love to stay in touch as sister churches. This is none other than the power of the Holy Spirt working through the church to use us and bless us when we open ourselves to God's purposes, in other words, a miracle. All the time, God uses ordinary people for extraordinary purposes - maybe even folks like us.
Miracle happen all the time in the church.
Today is Miracle Sunday for us. It's a bit presumptuous of us to try to create our own miracle, of course, but that's not who will create the miracle. The miracle which will emerge from our combined efforts will be testimony to the power of God to work through us to do far more than we think we can. If it were just up to us, we'd leave our money in our mutual funds and savings God knows we have plenty of uses for it in our own lives. But God has some ideas also about how our money might be used to create miracles of salvation in the lives of others.