Life together: We all have a place. We all have something to give.

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(Sept 27, 09 – Kim Pierrot)
My kids love the story You are Special by Max Lucado. It’s about the Wemmicks—wooden toy people who give each other stickers based on ability and appearance. Those who measure up receive stars, those who don’t get dots. The goal, of course, is to collect as many stars as possible and to avoid getting dots. The Wemmicks who listen to what Eli, the toymaker, thinks of them, soon discover that neither the stars nor dots can stick to them anymore.

How do we go about deciding who is the ‘greatest’ in our community? We don’t go around handing out stickers at church, but we aren’t that unlike the Wemmicks in the way that we are attracted to the smart, well-spoken people who smell good and have nice clothes. Are these the things God values too?

Bible passages like Luke 9:46-48 and the chapter on  Ministry  in Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s  Life Together remind us that whether “great” or “small”, we all have a place in God’s kingdom. And we all have something important to contribute to the community.

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