Accidental Saints

We ’re spending this time before Lent talking about accidental saints, those people where we find God and they don’t exactly “fit the bill” for those we should find God in. Which, I think is actually the majority of us. 

When we talk about saints, we often think of individuals who have had their sainthood declared, but the fact is, ordinary people can and will do extraordinary things. 

As we continue to celebrate and remember 100 years in this congregation, we can’t help but think about those people who have made an impact on the church, those people who are saints of our congregation. 

When we think about our history as a congregation, we think about the charter members of the church as being saints, we think about pastors who came here to lead us and move us into the next year as faithful followers of God. 

What we fail to think about are the saints in the congregation currently, the ones who are working and doing the ministry of Christ right alongside us. And when asked or told, I’m sure most of these people would deny their saint-hood, but they are still doing the things that would all us to find God in them. 

A love for God and Jesus and the Holy Spirit. A passion for doing the work of the ministry. A love for all those who come in these doors, leave these doors, and never enter these doors to the build-ing of the congregation. 

The church is a people, filled to the brim with saints who have come before and who will come again to do the work they are called to do.