Monday Reflection Week 10

It is true, as discussed in class, that churches have adopted the market economy model where as the Kingdom should take the gift exchange model. I think this is the influence from modernity as Fetch has pointed out in his book. It is the give and take model. This brings me to the text we read in the preaching class yesterday: “whoever welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and however welcomes me welcomes to one who sent me. For he who is least among you all – he is the greatest.” (Lk 9:48). The person who was preaching, Beth, said that welcoming children means accepting other not for what they can give us back but for who they are. She said children can not benefit us in any ways but slow us down. I totally agree with her and with the idea that we must give without expecting a return. We must love not so we can be loved back but because that is what Jesus have told us to and showed us to. As Chap Clark said: “I am not here to be a professor but to follow Jesus.” Amen to that!