The Comfort and the Challenge

Ron Rolheiser

Our churches, in preaching God’s word, need first of all to assure the world of God’s love, God’s concern, and God’s forgiveness.  Before doing anything else, God’s word is meant to comfort us; indeed, to be the ultimate source of all comfort. Only when the world knows God’s consolation will it accept the concomitant challenge.

And that challenge, among others, is to then make room for Christ at the inn, that is, to open our hearts, our homes, and our world as places were Christ can come and live.

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