Blest Are The Poor

The greatest good news ever to break into our human existence is the Good News of God’s love. The God who created you loves you so much that He continuously acts to bring you fullness of life. This is Gospel. This is Good News. Those of us in the Christian Community believe that we see this in its clearest focus in Jesus Christ, our Lord. In fact, the stories in the Bible that tell about Him are called “Gospels,” which means “Good News.” One of the things that we do as a Christian Community is gather together to announce the Good News, over and over again. We celebrate and rejoice in the fact that God loves us and wants us all to be complete and fulfilled persons. This is part of what our worship and our community life is about.

Certainly, in the kind of times we find ourselves, we need to keep announcing this Good News. Often we have reason to feel like…