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At St. Paul's United Methodist Church, we are a community of Christ followers who serve, worship, and grow together in
both our physical location in the heart of downtown Shawnee and online, connecting from wherever God has placed us.
We believe we are called to the mission of making disciples by
connecting, serving, and sharing in the love of Christ to all of God's children for the transformation of the world.
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Sermon Series;
It Will Be Like This
November 8, 2026: Keep Awake
Matthew 25:1-13
Through parables, the Twenty-Fifth chapter of Matthew helps us answer questions about what the kingdom of Heaven will be like, but it also helps us answer pressing questions about our Christian lives here and now. Who are we? What does it mean to be Christian? How do we stand against the misrepresentations of our faith by people of power and position in our society? Can we be citizens of a nation? Can we be patriots and also citizens of a kingdom and kin-dom of heaven? But for our purposes, what if we bring all these questions to the twenty-fifth chapter of Matthew? While it is usually understood to be about eternity, a second reading might offer insight into living in this moment with integrity and hope, all the while longing for the world to come. The only way we can begin to do that is to claim a vision. So, we say to one another, as Jesus said to us, “It will be like this.”
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