Presbytery of Northeastern New Jersey Updates
- lisa26365
- Oct 13, 2023
- 2 min read
Updated: Mar 20
The Presbytery of Northeast New Jersey
Lent is a season of reflection, repentance, and renewal, a time for preparing our hearts for the journey to the cross. As we walk this path, many of you will engage in the sacred practices of prayer, fasting, communion, and acts of devotion. But what if we saw service as a sacramental practice—an outward sign of God’s grace in the world?
Jesus made this connection clear. In John 13, he kneels to wash his disciples’ feet, commanding them to do the same. In Matthew 25, he tells us that when we serve the hungry, the sick, and the imprisoned, we are serving him directly. Service is not just a good deed—it is an encounter with Christ.
In our reformed tradition, sacraments are visible signs of invisible grace. If baptism marks us as God’s own and communion nourishes us in faith, then acts of service—feeding, healing, welcoming—are tangible expressions of God’s kingdom breaking into the world. Service is where faith comes alive, where grace moves from concept to action.
This Lent, as we gather at the Lord’s Table and remember our baptism, let us also take up the basin and the towel. Let us embody Christ’s love beyond the sanctuary, treating acts of compassion not as optional charity but as essential to our discipleship, as a sacrament of service. For in serving others, we meet Christ himself.
Steve Huston
Organizing Co-Leader
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