I want to borrow that term as something of a modern metaphor for Jesus. Jesus is like a search engine and our parish church, along with other worshipping Christian communities, is like a site to which you may be led. I hope you can see from the way I put it that I do not believe that our church is an end in itself, nor is it an answer for everyone who might “hit our site” whether via the internet or attending any one of our many services and programmes. I would rather hope that you retain the restlessness which St. Augustine said could only mitigated by a relationship with God.

Our Christian faith borrows a lot of the images from the Jewish faith which tells of many people on journeys of life. In fact the two of the gospels (Matthew and Luke) tell of a lot of journeying at the time of the birth of Jesus. As the gospel stories unfold we see a nomadic Jesus, going from place to place. He is quoted as saying that ‘(he) the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head”. At a deeper level his journeying, his searching is to find a more authentic representation of the Father and in turn to represent that as a liberating force in the lives of others. The Father was “more” than organized religion and official teachers of religion made God out to be.

For that reason we can only share our experience as a “resting place” for you along your journey. To borrow a song from the “Sound of Music” we might bid you “Search every mountain…. ‘til your find your dream”.

At our station, we hope that the mythology of St. George slaying the dragon might inspire you to slay your dragons. Dragons are thought to be imaginary from those who stand outside an experience, but for the person within the experience, they are real and crippling- they can block the way. Like “sacred cows’ they may have to be slain. Until like Jesus we find ourselves fully in God, anything and everything can be questioned.

I invite you to be part of that here at St. George’s or wherever you may be called to make your journey.

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