Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Wednesday’s thoughts

Each of the Gospel accounts present something unique and the Gospel of Luke is known as the Food Preparation Gospel. Luke seems to have been the one Gospel to focus on food and ritual food. The Last Supper according to Luke could have included fish. If Luke’s Gospel would have been the one most watched by the early church there would have been attention given to the Risen Christ appearing to the disciples and serving fish to them and they noticed who he was in the serving of the bread.

In Luke’s Gospel we find a man going down to pick up water and carrying the water back to his upper room. The disciples were told to find a man carrying water and to ask him to use his upper room. Had there not been a person carrying water to do the laundry, there would not have been the Last Supper in the Upper Room.

It seems that much of our life is spent on things that seem unimportant, like laundry, and little of our life is spent on things of monumental consequences, like Communion.

In the sermon I am interested in having us look at the way the common and ordinary figures into the pattern of our holiness.

Can we find a way to make a sacrament in the soap-suds?

What are the holiest, unimportant things we do?

I’d like to hear from you.  Write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net

I look forward to hearing about your feelings concerning laundry, leaf-raking, dish washing, and letter writing.

Charles Schuster

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