Sunday Notes

Today is a very good day, because my Mum came to visit. She and her best friend are doing a road trip, and they spent the afternoon/evening with me. They've headed back to the hotel now, with plans to join me for breakfast before I have to head to work and they have to start back east.

My Sunday School class did their homework presentations today. Each student had the name of a missionary to research and then present some basic facts: the name of the person, date of birth, date of death, why the person was famous, and at least one interesting fact. They're not always good at "interesting" facts, or even relevant facts. Some of them managed to talk about missionaries without ever mentioning where they went or what they did, instead choosing to focus on "he died of heart trouble" or "he had 2 wives".

The associate pastor had to fill in today because the main pastor (who was going to preach) was not well. Pastor Mike preached on the good Samaritan and the question the lawyer asked: "What must I do to inherit eternal live?" It was a really good sermon, and he showed us that it is impossible to earn salvation, since we would have to love God with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength, and our neighbours as ourselves, habitually, constantly, continually, on-going, all the time. None of us do that, so none of us can earn salvation. The good news, of course, is that we don't have to because God has already done all the work for us.

It's been a very good Sunday.