What Now?

Introduction: TS Eliot’s “Little Gidding”

Born in St. Louis

Boston family

Moved to England @ 25, became a subject @39

Little Gidding; part of the Four Quartets

To Make an End...

Coming to the end of this segment of the sermon series, we must ask what we are to do with what we’ve learned

s to Make a Beginning

We’ve had a number of important lessons

Saved by grace through faith

Created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do

Live a life worthy of the calling you have received

Grow to become in every respect the mature body of Christ

Now we need to live into those lessons

This Wednesday the end of our regular series is the beginning of Lent

Is to Make a Beginning

While Lent is usually known as a time of giving something up, that’s really only half of the story

I wanted to get out ahead of this before Ash Wednesday

The goal of Lent is to model the “put off/put on” of & 5

When you put off chocolate, what are you putting in its place? Agonizing over chocolate?

Worthless things - to what end? Are we going to put down your phone to pick up engagement with God & the world around us?

Relationship with work - not just for pre-retirement folks! We all work, but through the fall it has become toil and drudgery. Are we going to seek to redeem our work, to bring God intentions for worth and meaning and relationship back into them?

Relationship with anger - perhaps something that touched you was the relationship with emotions. Anger was central to Paul’s example. Perhaps you want to put off the

Relationship with generosity

Relationship with prayer

Relationship with worship

Knowledge of the Scriptures

The spiritual stewardship card in the bulletin is a guide for how you might take your next steps in maturing.