An Invitation to See and Live the Gospel
This Sunday I am preaching at the church I attend. So this is my way of putting together some thoughts that will turn into that sermon. They might be helpful for someone so here they are. “And behold a woman having a spirit of infirmity 18 years” [1] . Or as the NRSV puts it “And just then there appeared a woman with a spirit that had crippled her for eighteen years” [2] . We slide past that line. And yet here is the crux. Behold – and invisible woman, invisible for 18 years, is seen by Jesus. The bible for me is not the word of God, as it is sometimes called, but the vehicle through which the Eternal Word of God who was incarnate in the person of Jesus, speaks to us. I could put some more Trinitarian language in that, but you get the gist. And for me that means these books are not rules to obey, or a collection of verses to quote for particular purposes, but books of theologies, each with their own understand of God, each with their own invitation to their faith communities and to...
