Inner Work: Lose Your Life To Find It
September 3, 2023
Church of the Servant
14th Sunday after Pentecost Proper 17 - Year A Matthew 16:21-28 Click the Audio Link below to hear the Sermon (The second link below includes both the scripture reading and the Sermon.)
Sources:
Link to Coastline Replay: https://www.whqr.org/show/coastline/2023-08-29/coastline-racial-healing-activists-of-all-races-need-to-interrogate-themselves-first-says-dr-catherine-meeks
jodygreenwood 
Thank you. I have been attending a predominantly white church with my husband. As a black female heading towards my 72nd birthday, I feel lost there. I keep reminding myself that these are people who love the Lord like I do. I can’t help wonder how many don’t want me around. I then worry that Satan is defeating me by keeping my focus on not belonging rather than finding why I am there. I want to go back to my black church where I was an assistant minister and I felt I belonged. Am I being unloving and reverse racism my game? Why is it so hard so time to be just human in America when you have brown skin?
That must be very difficult, so doing the “inner work” may lead you to find what God is calling yu to there, or somewhere else. If you haven’t heard the conversation with Dr. Catherine Meeks that I mentioned, I encourage you to hear it. The link is provided at the bottom of the blog post (below the pictures).
I bought her book as
fter listening to you. I will listen after writing my Bible Study on my blog, Huldah’s Sisters.