Sunday, 23 June 2019

Privilege Priority and Purpose and the Gospel

The preacher at St Paul’s morning service today was Liz Wilson, the vicar of St Peter’s, who has recently been appointed to the parish of St Anne’s, St Pauls and St Augustine’s in the city of Leicester. We wished her well.

In the 2nd of a series on St Paul’s Epistle to the Philippians (end of chapter 1), Liz pointed to Paul’s sense of privilege, priority and purpose – a sense of privilege in being allowed to help spread the gospel, his sense of priority in spreading the good news of Christ, and his purpose; that whatever was done to him, including his imprisonment, was being used by God to spread his good news.

It was a challenge to us to see life in the same way. We shall miss Liz as she moves on.