“[H]e who loves is he who has been touched by the freedom of God” Karl Barth (Romans, 498)

Grace Cathedral, San Francisco, CA 2D60, O25 15 Pentecost (Proper 18A) 8:30 a.m. and 11:00 a.m. Eucharist Sunday 10 September 2023 Congregation Sunday

Exodus 12:1-14

Psalm 149

Romans 13:8-14

Matthew 18:15-20

Matthew uses the Greek word for church (“ekklesia”) in only two places. One of them occurs in our gospel reading today. He concludes this passage about Christian community with one of my favorite lines in the Bible. Jesus says, “For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them” (Mt. 18).