Re-entry Christ (Matt 21:1-11)
Some ladies could be heard outside the church a few days ago. I didn’t think much of their background chatter until my wife arrived back from town in the car and going out to help her with the heavy groceries I was asked if we had a key to the church. I informed the ladies that the church wasn’t locked and proceeded to help them to enter in, knowing the way the latch worked. It occurred to me that people have many differing views of how one may enter in to the Kingdom of God, even to the Church. Some see a theatre of coming to the sacramental altar of the historically continuous church, others a lecture room of the word and sacrament, others the presence of the Holy Spirit in Christian fellowship. Some have feared God believing there is no way their unrighteousness could ever darken the door of the church. Matthew 21 sets a similar story before us as Jesus re-enters the fallen habitation of peace (Jerusalem) for the Passover festival after a long period of being “On the road to Jerusa