This Sunday at St George the Martyr
I wonder if you know the old chorus: “I have decided to follow Jesus, no turning back, no turning back.”
It has been going around my head this week as I’ve been preparing for our worship on Sunday.
Luke’s Gospel tells us of the crowds who followed Jesus because they had seen what he could do. They had watched him heal the sick, feed the hungry, tell stories of a kingdom where the lost are found and the poor are welcomed. And then, just when the crowds are at their biggest, Jesus turns to them and says: “Count the cost.”
Discipleship is beautiful, but it is costly. It asks for our whole lives. Yet what looks like loss is life, what looks like defeat is victory, what looks like the end is joy without end.
We glimpse it each time we approach the altar: bread broken, wine poured, the love of Christ poured out for us.
Join us this Sunday as we take up the song of faith together:
The world behind me, the cross before me.
No turning back, no turning back.
With every blessing,
Fr Ben
