Last
Sunday night Kyrie Fort Worth decked the halls of Zio Carlo Magnolia Brew Pub
with Christmas carols as our largest gathering to date met for sacred song, living
word and holy meal. We lit candles while singing Silent Night and Happy Xmas
(War is Over) and celebrated the birth of the Christ child who grown to
preadolescence in this text will cause his parents no small amount of
consternation by slipping away unseen to his “Father’s” house. Some might say
that a church meeting in plain sight in a pub dishonors the One in whose name
we gather and I can understand why that might be said even if I happen to
disagree. Granted the house that Jesus identified with his Father was set apart
in the same way our houses of worship are easily identified as such and maybe a
pub doesn't qualify, but then what makes a house a home for the “Father” has little
to do with architecture and everything to do with the human heart that meets in
the house. So Jesus will return to the same “my Father’s” house twenty years
later and over turn tables in the house of prayer that had been turned into a
den of thieves. Tables are turned on a Sunday night at Zio Carlo to remember
the God who is present throughout the week in that place because through the
Son the Father’s house can be found wherever people of faith gather.
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