Welcome to Cross and Crown Lutheran Church.

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We at Cross and Crown meet monthly for one of our Bible studies, "Breakfast and the Word." This is where we eat our potluck breakfast and discuss our chosen word of the month. We explore where the word is found in the Bible, we look at theological implications, and everyone contributes to the group discussion, sharing thoughts and feelings about what these words mean. I always go away learning so much from each participant! Today's word was "humble." Sometimes these words are a challenge to unpack, and I don't know how the conversation will unfold, but by the grace of God, it always does. 

The bottom line of our study today is that all people are made in the image of God, giving everyone inherent dignity and worth, regardless of social class, status, race, gender, etc. We have God given spiritual equality. Salvation and grace were offered equally for all souls. This has most certainly not always been lived out in the church historically, but we still hold to its truth.  

That means no one has the right to boast. No one has the right to lord it over others and act in a superior, arrogant, or domineering way toward people, treating others as subordinates. Because we are all equal, we are invited to all be humble. Meanwhile, we each have gifts to share with the world, so rise up and share them! Let your light shine before others while realizing the light was a gift from God in the first place. 

As siblings of the family of God, may we be humble in our relationships with others, living out God's gifts to us, while thanking God for a life full of abundant blessings!  

God's peace, 

Pastor Stephanie