Do you know how many Churches there are within a one mile radius of our church?  There are more than a dozen.  Churches are everywhere.  Some are big; some are small.  Some ring church bells; some have fancy stained-glass windows.  Some have early services; some have evening services.  In some churches people kneel to pray; in others the people stand.  Some churches support mission overseas; and some do mission in their neighbourhoods.  There are many different churches because there are many different people.  When we visit another church, and they’re doing something that we don’t, it isn’t that they are doing something wrong; they are just doing things differently.  Difference, as we saw last time, isn’t the bad thing that we sometimes fear it might be.  But today, while each church may do things differently, most of them, across our city and around the world, are doing one thing in particular that is the same.  Today is World Communion Sunday, which means that churches around the world are celebrating the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper.  Today, through World Communion Sunday, we are celebrating the fact, that even though we may do things differently, we are all loved by God and are in need of His grace.  By sharing together, around the world in the Lord’s Supper, we celebrate our shared need for God.  So let us worship God, revelling in our difference and rejoicing in our similarity: that we all love Jesus and want to make Him known to all peoples.

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