Our great God has through the Holy Spirit equipped us redeemed people with all that is needed to make the church a powerful, effective instrument in a power-mad but powerless world today. God is always out to do the impossible: to bring order into disorder, purpose into purposelessness, fullness into emptiness, healing into sickness, and to restore aching, hungry hearts back to God. 

God can do this, however, only through faithful people as individuals and as members of the Church. It seems, however, that we the Church have not discovered or recovered all the missing talents, or have invested God’s gifts to us in ways and matters that serve our own programs and purposes rather than human need in the world about us.

Instead of us finding answers to the problems of our world, we have too often been a part of the problem. May our Lord enable us to fulfill our servanthood by using our talents and gifts to us to communicate God’s love and grace to people in need.