Weekly Thought: (Post) Modern people are spiritual people, right? Millions watch TV shows like the Medium, the Ghost Whisper. We know that science can't explain everything. We know that "Science" is based on presuppositions that can't be proved by science, i.e. Science requires "faith." There's more to life than money and matter. This is what the Bible teaches and Christians have believed for centuries. As we take a second look at the second half of Ephesians 4 this week, we look at the reality of the spiritual dynamic of community. As we think about what it means to see the "newness" of life flourish and grow, naturally in Ephesians, the primary place is in the new community of the church. We're not talking simply "group-dynamics" here. We're not merely crafting ethics or rules to facilitate superficial harmony. We're coming to grips with the spiritual reality of community. Intrigued (or confused), try reading Ephesians 4:1 and then, 4v17- 5:2. The following meditation might also help and prepare you for corporate worship. It's a little longer than I normally send out. It's from a sermon CS Lewis gave almost exactly 65 years ago at the Church of St Mary the Virgin in Oxford (June 8, 1942). It's been published as an essay titled, "The Weight of Glory." CS Lewis begins by talking about how humans are made in the image of God. Psalm 8 tells us they are just a little lower than God. Not God himself, but his image. Not going to be God, but still glorious: It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest and most uninteresting person you talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare. All day long we are, in some degree, helping each other to one or other of these destinations. It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilization-these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit-immortal horrors or everlasting splendours. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously-no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner-no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment. Next to the Blessed Sacrament itself, your neighbour is the holiest object presented to your senses. If he is your Christian neighbour he is holy in almost the same way, for in him also Christ vere latitat-the glorifier and the glorified, Glory Himself, is truly hidden. CS Lewis