What happens when we come to church? What happens when we walk in through this front door and sit ourselves down in this place? What do we bring with us? What do we leave outside?
In the last couple of years we have had news headline after story after opinion piece after editorial about the global financial crisis. News of civil war and natural disasters and plagues have continued to happen – sometimes as front page news, and sometimes not. Do we leave those things behind when we come in here? What about our own problems and issues? Work, family, health, our children, our future? Do we leave them all neatly stacked at the door in order to come here and focus on other things? God things? Holy things?
