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Zetland Park Methodist Church Pastoral Letters
17 April 2011

"When Jesus entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred and asked, 'Who is this?' " Matthew 21 v. 10

Was He that un-recognisable that folk HAD to ask that question? Surely they were aware of the accounts from Scripture which indicated the arrival, on a donkey, of an important personage: none other than the Messiah? Or was the entire scenario one of those which took them all by surprise and the penny failed to drop? Or, was there a more sinister motive?

Whatever the 'thinking' there was a stir and those in authority were well and truly disturbed by all that was going on: they were NOT in control, and that would have fatal consequences.

Sometimes too, we battle on with questions which are totally irrelevant to a subject because the book says we must, and the entire issue is clouded by a piece of paper rather than our eyes and ears, and judgement.

I've just come off a ten-minute 'phone call with a government individual who was convinced that he was talking to a government agency as he asked me 'questions' about the 'church'. I don't think he had a clue what a church was and was meant to be. But he persisted in the questioning: Goodness knows what his line manager would make of the answers I gave!!!

Likewise, we sometimes come at our 'faith' with pre-conceived notions and find ourselves up a cul-de-sac and then promptly 'blame the Church' for the mess we are in, when all the time, a little thought on our part would have made all the difference.

This coming week IS CRUCIAL to our understanding of the very nature of God, as shown to us through His Son Jesus Christ, and to fill out this 'understanding', we cannot and must not jump from one celebration to another, for we will NEVER understand the TRUE meaning of the season of the year, without the pain of Holy Week.

If you REALLY want your light to shine to the glory of God, you NEED to understand why you are being called to do it … And this IS THE WEEK that will begin to provide the answer.


Experience the joy of procession … the pain and darkness of betrayal … The agony and pain of an horrendous death … Then …

Shalom,
Malcolm

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