This week we read about one of the most, if not the most important moment in the Jewish faith - the Passover and the Exodus. We also study about what happens when trouble breaks out in the Christian community. Community - God's community - is the theme this week. The Rev. Dr. Susanna Metz tells us "we can't put limits to our forgiveness either. We can't say, “OK, fine, that didn't work. I don't have to do anything more.” Reconciliation means the door to forgiveness has to stay open. But there’s more. When we wrong others, we must repent... If we want our life as a church to grow, we need to work constantly on our witness. Others must see us care for each other. They should hear us speak kindly of one another and they should see us forgive and ask forgiveness. It's not always easy, and we won't always do it. But as we try to live as we are called to live, we have only to remember that Jesus also said, “Where two or three are gathered in my name, there I am among them.”In "Bloody Doorposts," from the book The Divine Salvage by Curtis and Tempe Fussell, Curtis Fussell tells us "The thought of a meal with wine symbolizing blood is awesome and barbaric to the outsider. But in the drinking of that cup we spread the blood of Jesus Christ on the doorposts of our lives. We do it in the belief and out of the assurance that God acts decisively for us in Jesus Christ as He did for the Hebrews on that Passover night. God has not hesitated. God has not waited for us to change our minds. No, God comes and acts decisively to set us free."
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