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Aloha Trinity by-the-Sea ‘Ohana,
     Here we are, in the third week of Lent, a season of prayerful reflection about who we are, who we’re called to be, and where we’re called to go. It’s a season of personal reflection, and also reflection as the church, the Body of Christ.
     Recently I ran across priest and theologian Hans Kung’s piece entitled, "The Church of the Future" in the St. James Episcopal Church, Hawai’i Island, newsletter, and I pass it along (with thanks to St. James) for your reflection. 

     “To what kind of Christian, to what kind of church, does the future belong?

• Not to a church that is lazy, shallow, indifferent, timid and weak in its faith;
• Not to a church that expects blind obedience and fanatical party loyalty;
• Not to a church that is a slave of its own history, always putting on the brakes, suspiciously defensive and yet, in the end forced into agreement;
• Not to a church that is anti-critical, practically anti-intellectual and dilettantish;
• Not to a church that is blind to problems, suspicious of empirical knowledge, yet claiming competent authority for everyone and everything;
• Not to a church that is quarrelsome, impatient and unfair in dialogue;
• Not to a church that is closed to the real world.

In short, the future does not belong to a church that is dishonest!

     No, the future belongs:

• To a church that knows what it does not know;
• To a church that relies upon God's grace and wisdom and has in its weakness and ignorance a radical confidence in God;
• To a church that is strong in faith, joyous and certain, yet self-critical;
• To a church filled with intellectual desire, spontaneity, animation and fruitfulness;
• To a church that has the courage of initiative, and the courage to take risks;
• To a church that is altogether open to the real world;

In short, the future belongs to a thoroughly truthful church!”

     For the last several months, we at Trinity by-the-Sea have been praying and talking about what God is calling us to be and do here in Kihei, as a “truthful,” open, listening, and discerning church. Our numbers are small, there is much to do, and sometimes the road ahead seems daunting. But God is faithful, and calls us to be faithful too. As we follow in our Lord’s steps... all the way to the cross, and then on to the empty tomb and the Resurrection, he bids us to be the church of the future. We may not know exactly where the road leads, but we do know the One we follow, and we know that he will not leave or forsake us.
     As you continue your Lenten journey, I pray that you will be refreshed and renewed as you turn again to the One who says, simply, “Follow me.”

Blessings,
Bruce+

March Celebrations

Birthdays
    Jim Lanigan           03/04
    Kathleen Maryatt      03/04
    Joanne Hopper         03/07
    Joan Vila             03/11
    Kyra Vila             03/15
    Ryder Zipf            03/18
    Lisa Werner           03/20
    Steve McGuire         03/25
    Rod Izon              03/28
    Jim Urbanski          03/31

Anniversaries
    Elbert and Mary Ann Izon     03/25
    Jack and Maribeth Klobuchar  03/31

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