Ascension Sunday 2012: The Great Comission
Homily: The Great Commission Let’s start our homily today with a question: Why Am I Here Instead of Heaven? In other words, why don’t we all just ascend into Heaven. Beam me up, Scotty, no intelligent life here No worries, I am not turning the grades into the bishop. Because my home in Heaven is not finished yet. (raise your hand) we know that’s not true—John 14 Because I must not be good enough yet. (trick answer—none of us are good enough to make it to Heaven Because God is having second thoughts about me. (no, He loves you and continues to love you—the greatest miracle in the world is that God so loved the world that He gave His one and only son—the second greatest is that God so loved you and me personally that he gave His one and only son—and that Son is on the throne interceding for us) None of the above. If you answered D, you are right. There’s something else he wanted us to do. Our readings today help us to understand God’