05/09/21

WELCOME to Westminster Church Online!

We are glad that you are here this morning. We hope this time of worship nurtures
your faith enlivens your spirit and engages your mind as we celebrate God’s
love and healing for the world with the resurrection of Christ, our Risen Lord.

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Then grab your Bible, a cup of tea or coffee, and prepare your heart for worship.

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READ THE SERMON

6th Sunday of Easter – May 9, 2021
Rev. Denise Clark-Jones

“CHOOSING FRIENDS”

In Acts, Luke gives us a picture of the early Church’s beginning. In our reading for today, Peter learns God’s spirit is greater than our expectations. With the gift of the Holy Spirit to the gentiles, the excluded became included. The reading for today marks what has become known as “The Gentile Pentecost.” The ones that were deemed outside of God’s family became God’s children. Those deemed unworthy were proclaimed blessed children of God. This should not have surprised Peter. Look back to those who Jesus befriended, sinners and Samaritans, poor folk and prostitutes, tax collectors and ten lepers, and the list goes on. Jesus didn’t hang out with the “in crowd,” he brought the unchosen into his circle of love.

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O God, you have prepared for those who love you such good things
as surpass our understanding: Pour into our hearts such love
towards you, that we, loving you in all things and above all things,
may obtain your promises, which exceed all that we can desire;
through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with
you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.