The support team

After Ephesians 4:11-16 

We’re not thrown

onto barren ground,

left to fend for ourselves,

no more than a newborn

is placed outside the door

and wished good luck.

Instead, there’s a team,

a support team, people

raised up for the purpose

of raising us to the unity

of faith. There they are:

apostles, prophets, shepherds,

evangelists, teachers, each one

inspired to pour knowledge,

maturity, fullness into you.

They nurture the newborn,

turning children into adults.

 

Photograph by Tobias Mrzyk via Unsplash. Used with permission.

Some Sunday Readings

 

The Wild of God in Waterloo Township, Michigan – Steven Knepper at Front Porch Republic.

 

How to Stay Married – poem by Jody Collins at Poetry & Made Things.

 

Watching the Sun Go Down – poem by David Whyte.

 

Christ as King – Robb Brunansky at The Cripplegate.

 

We can’t think or live Christianly – T.M. Suffield at Nuakh.