Acts 2 in Edmond, OK

A Reading & Reflection from Courtney Blacksten:
I like to think I’m a pretty decent person. I pray and read scripture regularly. I try to live like Jesus as best I can every day, and yet I so often fall short. And while I regularly ask those I’ve hurt for forgiveness when I know I’ve hurt them, I fail to recognize how I’ve hurt those I’ve overlooked, or even creation itself. I assume I’m not the only person who feels this way. 

A Reading & Reflection from Madelyn Thane:
Who is my neighbor? Or, as we are sometimes tempted to ask, who is not my neighbor? We are not called only to love and care for the people closest to us. We are called to love people we have never met, people who think differently than we do, and people whose opinions, experiences, or beliefs may make them feel far away from us.

A Reading & Reflection from Rev. Tim Travers:
One day, Jesus encounters a Samaritan woman at a well, and the conversation they have leaves a huge impact on the woman’s life. Right after their talk, the woman is asking (herself and others) the profound question, “He couldn’t be the messiah, could he?” Perhaps she even knows the question is rhetorical, because deep down, she knows that he is. She’d gone from being stuck on what was happening on the surface toward questioning things even deeper than the well by which she stood. But it was a process for her. In that conversation, she’d moved from considering only the literal to entertaining deeply soul-searching questions.