Reflecting on the Feast of Pentecost, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori reminded Episcopalians in a brief May 1 letter to continue searching for the image of God in others, “especially in those who may call us enemy.”
“Jesus is Lord. In the same sense that the early Christians proclaimed that Jesus, not Caesar, is Lord,” she wrote, “remember that no one else – not any hierarch, not any ecclesiastical official, not any one of you – is Lord. We belong to God, whom we know in Jesus, and there is no other place where we find the ground of our identity.”
“We cannot engage the fullness of God’s mission alone, nor know the fullness of God’s reality alone,” she concluded. “Together as members of the Body of Christ, we can begin to try. And the Spirit, burning fire, inspiring breath, and speaking in many tongues, is present in that Body, empowering and emboldening and strengthening our work.”
Reprinted by permission of The Living Church magazine (www.livingchurch.org)