back home to a young man's dreams of glory and of fame ...
back home to places in the country,
back home to the old forms and systems of things which once seemed everlasting but which are changing all the time ..." Thomas Wolfe You Can't Go Home Again
This applies to the church.
As powerfully present and spiritually enlightening those days of old might have been, today is today. When all our effort is given over to re-capturing the past ('going home') we have turned a deaf ear and blind eye to God's work among us: renewing, resurrecting, welcoming, making whole.
God's home in Jesus lies ahead of us. Come follow where Jesus leads.
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