(I used an outline this week. Hopefully it won't be difficult to follow.)
Gospel: Luke 15:1-10
1st
Reading: Exodus 32:7-14
2nd Reading: 1 Timothy
1:12-17
Share a story about something you've lost
Share a story about something you've found
We are undignified when we are looking
for something/desperate
God looks undignified in this Gosepl reading
Not to have all the answers
Not to have others to do that for him
Looking through the vacuum bag for the
diamond from my wedding ring
God not here to be dignified
otherwise God wouldn't
beg for us back
change God's mind
come as a baby
become our friend
get arrested
hang naked on the cross
die
Instead God came to be with us in
relationship
Dignified is distant, separate, better
Our job is also not to be dignified
Instead we can be in relationship,
care, compassion
Normally I don't care if I lose a
penny.
I can eventually get over the loss of a
pet, although I've never had a sheep
But we all understand the desperation
when it is a child who gets lost
That's what God is looking for, a
family member
We each have value to God and God knows
the community is stronger when the lost are brought back
We are lost
lost in our search for dignity
We won't ask directions
We don't want our name called across
the PA
However, God finds us and brings us
home
back to the fold
it sure feels good, wholeness, shalom
We get to let go of dignity and start
building relationships
Be vulnerable
be open to searching, looking
desperate, because we all need each other desperately
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