Theme: Jesus Before Pilate. "Are You the King of the Jews?" The question for us is this: "Is Jesus our King?"

THE COMMUNITY GATHERS TO CELEBRATE

Pastoral and Congregational Invitation (Pastor and Ministers)
Welcome to Christ the King Sunday. According to one author (unknown to me), and according to the prophets of Israel, God was not meant to be worshiped. We are related to God, not through adoration and praise, but through our painful involvement with the divine will. The religion that we often dream up changes the living God into a cosmic relic. When we are quietly worshiping, it is not God with whom we are dealing. When God is related to us, the quiet is shattered. God is an explosion, not a silence. At least, this was the message of the prophets from Moses to Second Isaiah. (One minu…