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SUMMARY:Family Communion and Junior Church
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DESCRIPTION:Family Communion for the twelfth Sunday after Trinity: celebra
 nt the Revd Tola Badejo. Junior Church takes place at the same time in the
  hall.\n\nFirst reading: Jeremiah 18: 1–11\nGospel: Luke 14. 25–33\n\n
 Today's readings are challenging\, underlining not only the fact that God 
 is a God of justice as well as compassion but also that the life of faith 
 will involve sacrifices. Jeremiah's image of the potter is dramatic and me
 morable: as soon as the craftsman  sees that his work is not coming out as
  he intended\, he casts it down and makes a fresh start. Yet\, severe as i
 t is\, the metaphor contains hope: though the potter utterly destroys the 
 form of the imperfect pot\, he starts again with the same clay\, and in th
 e same way God will\, if we allow him\, build up those whom he has chastis
 ed.   \n\nIn the Gospel\, Luke presents Jesus in a harshly uncompromising 
 light\, apparently demanding that his followers reject not only their mate
 rial possessions but also their families. Clearly this is not his intentio
 n - Christ would neither ask that we 'hate' anyone nor encourage us to bre
 ak one of the Commandments - and many thoughtful commentaries explain that
  Jesus typically used exaggerated language and that the word 'hate' is an 
 imperfect translation of a verb that simply means the opposite of 'prefer'
 . Nevertheless\, his meaning is clearly that faith\, and the duties it ent
 ails\, take precedence over all other considerations\, a truth reflected i
 n traditional representations of the crucifixion showing those whom Christ
  most loved at the foot of the cross.
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