All Saints Sunday is one of those celebrations with a bifocal emphasis. On the one hand, it is an in-house event, a celebration of the community of faith and those who have walked as a part of the community and now have entered into God’s eternity.
On the other hand, All Saints is an opportunity to look beyond the walls of the local congregation and be reminded that, in Christ, we are bound up into a larger fellowship of those who look like us alongside those who do not look like us, sound like us, or gather like us. We can push the horizons wider to see that we are a part of something bigger than we can imagine.