- 1st Reading - Psalm 119
- 2nd reading - Romans 13 v8-14
- Time of reflection with "Come down O Love Divine"
- Talk - The national debt
- For 100s of years our government has been borrowing money to fund its activities
- That amount has steadily increased until 10 years ago, the amount hit 1 trillion pounds
- With the effect of the pandemic, the amount is now 2 trillion ponds.
- How do we get out of this - borrow more, bring in austerity, tax more?
- £40,000 per adult if we wanted to cancel it now 😊
- Paul certainly wanted debts cleared
- He talked though about a debt we can never clear, the debt of love.
- In Ch8 he speaks of the love of Christ Jesus that holds us in life and death
- Paul doesn't talk about loving God, but moves straight to loving neighbours.
- Why does he leave out love for God?
- Maybe Paul is making the point that loving god is easy but the invisible, annoying neighbour is more of a challenge.
