Greetings on this 6th Sunday after Pentecost,
Everyone is a disciple. The only qualifier to discover is to whom or what are you a disciple.
As Jesus concluded His time upon the earth, He left us with numerous commands. But the one we consider as “great” is, “Therefore, go and make disciples…” (Matthew 28:19). It is the work of every Christian individually and collectively as the church. As we travel through the entirety of the Bible, examples are everywhere of discipleship. If you take a trip through history, the same shows up. When the church is at its best, we are making disciples.
On the path of a disciple, we are learning to grow in our relationships with Christ and with the community. It begins when we take the yoke.
How do you want to visualize the yoke that Jesus describes in our text. (Matthew 11:16-19, 25-30) Do you see it as an opportunity or as a burden? As a fulfillment of a calling or a duty to be performed?
FAUMC sees the yoke as a symbol of the calling to a life of service. Come as we worship to celebrate our ministry in the church and in the community. Our call to service is not a burden or a duty, but pure joy.
Come as we tell the stories of those who have been blessed by serving and being served as well as stories of how someone found God or his/her life’s purpose in serving.
Worship will lift up service as a fulfillment of the easy yoke, the one that fits us, that satisfies a deep longing in our soul to be at work in the fields of the Lord.
You’re invited to come! Let worship be a time to thank God for the opportunity to serve.