In and for Christ

Last night I spent a couple of hours reading the discussion that took place in GC29 about the point of making Brothers superiors of the community. The exercise of collating the various reasons for and against, while jotting down my own personal reflection about the same was enriching. 

And naturally, when I woke up this morning and was in the Chapel for prayers, some of those points were still doing the rounds in my mind. But there was one particular point that I strongly felt last night and I jotted it down separately! And call it coincidence or serendipity, the Scripture reading of the morning prayers today (Wk 2; Friday) reinforced that very idea of mine when it says thus: 

For Christ himself has brought us peace, by making the Jews and Gentiles oen people. With his own body he broke down the wall that separated them and kept them enemies. He abolished the Jewish Law, with its commandments and rules, in order to create out of the two races one new people IN UNION WITH HIMSELF, in this way making peace… he united both races into one body and brought them BACK TO GOD. (Eph. 2: 13-16) 

While we can go on debating endlessly about Brothers and Priests, if we miss out the point that if we are not together IN and FOR Christ, then we’ve totally lost the plot!