St. Andrew's Church, Prineville, OR
In
the Name of Jesus. Amen.
Somebody
once said that saints are people that the light of Christ shines through. Our tour of the windows this summer has
showed us the great many ways the light shines through. These windows ask us to consider, What does
your window look like? How does the
light shine through you?
Luke
is our first window this week. He wrote
both the gospel and the Book of Acts. The two were intended as Volume One and Volume
Two of one work.
If
you read them one after the other, you notice, this is more than the story of
Jesus. Luke tells the story of the Holy
Spirit, from the Spirit’s first manifestation in Zechariah, the father of John
the Baptist, to person after person in the Book of Acts. Each outpouring is greater than the
last. In fact, everything that Jesus did
in the Gospel gets repeated and more so in the Book of Acts.
I
saw what you might call a theological reflection on Facebook the other day that
carries Luke’s theme one step further. It
said, Fueled by the Spirit, look what
Paul accomplished for the reign of God. Imagine
what we could do. We have the same Spirit
– and we have coffee, too! Maybe
there’ll be a coffee cup in my window. How
about yours?
