For I have come to call not the righteous but sinners’ĬHOIR/ORGAN/ALL: HYMN: He sat to watch o’er customs paid (Bow Brickhill) Go and learn what this means “I desire mercy not sacrifice”. When the Pharisees saw this they said to his disciples, ‘Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?’ But when Jesus heard this he said, ‘Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. And as he sat at dinner in the house, many tax collectors and sinners came and were sitting with Jesus and his disciples. In his gospel Matthew himself tells about his first encounter with the one he came to follow as his Lord and Master.Īs Jesus was walking along he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth, and he said to him ‘Follow me’. It took the extraordinary charisma of Jesus, who didn’t judge men and women by conventional stereotypes or prejudices, but by a different set of values, to recognise the divine image beyond the dross of most human lives. And that gospel we have been entrusted with – a gospel of blessing and blessedness to be proclaimed and lived out in the opportunities of our daily lives.ĬHOIR/ORGAN/ALL: HYMN: We have a gospel to proclaim (Fulda) He was also one of the disciples of Jesus who was numbered among the twelve apostles and whose fame rests primarily on the gospel he wrote to celebrate the life, death and rising of Jesus Christ. Nothing could be dirtier or more despised than one who collected taxes for the Romans and Matthew was a tax collector. The occupying Roman administration whose rule for good and ill extended throughout the known world needed local lads to do their dirty work. Matthew was a Jew who was doubtless regarded as a collaborator by his fellow Jews. Today we celebrate the feast day of our patron, St Matthew. The preacher is the Revd Lucy Winkett and the service is led by the Vicar, Father Philip Chester. Time now for Sunday Worship which comes live from St Matthew’s Church in Westminster. ![]() It may contain gaps to be filled in at the time so that prayers may reflect the needs of the world, and changes may also be made at the last minute for timing reasons, or to reflect current events.īBC Radio 4. It may include editorial notes prepared by the producer, and minor spelling and other errors that were corrected before the radio broadcast. ![]() This script cannot exactly reflect the transmission, as it was prepared before the service was broadcast.
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