Pastor's Comments

“Whom are you looking for?”

These words were read at our Good Friday service, from John’s account of the Passion.  This is the moment that starts God’s plan for reclaiming our souls – a simple moment, an ordinary question, but the answer drops people to the dirt: “Whom are you looking for?”

I thought of this question related to our lives together at Holy Trinity.  Our community, the friendship and fellowship we share, is such an important part of all our lives.  So many times I’ve heard us say, “Without Holy Trinity my week feels lost.”  So many times I’ve heard and seen what a difference this place makes in your lives.  I’ve witnessed and been amazed by what God can do within people’s hearts through Holy Trinity.  And what an incredible blessing and joy that is!

It’s helpful for us all to ask ourselves Jesus’ question sometimes: when we come to Holy Trinity, whom are we looking for?  When we serve at Hope or Preschool Storytime or in Youth Group, whom are we seeking?  When we come to worship, what are we expecting?  Is it community and friendship?  In that case liturgy will be a boring framework because it’s not entertainment.  But if we’re expecting an experience of God, liturgy becomes a roadmap, a well-worn path handed down by millennia of faithful people who experienced God in this way.  Hopefully that’s why we here, but – whom are we looking for?

It’s clear the question is vital, because it informs and deepens absolutely everything we do.  Mission trips, quilting, youth group, worship, even Bread Breakers, we should ask ourselves: Whom are we looking for?  Are we expecting God to show up today?  What are we seeking?

This month we will have the chance to meet in Cottage Meetings to talk about God’s preferred future for us here at Holy Trinity.  Our Visioning committee has prayed much and talked long over these questions, and we’re incredibly excited about what God has been saying.  Now it’s our turn to include you in the conversation.  What is God up to here?  How can we remember to put him at the focus?  Whom are we looking for?

Blessings to us all in this exciting part of our lives together!  And may we continually ask ourselves: whom are we looking for?

Peace,

-Pastor Tim