Sunday was what the early Christians called “The Lord’s Day,” and as one speaker reminded us during communion, the remembrance of Christ on that day is something God’s children have done for about 100,000 times now (over 2000 years). If you do anything that many times, how do you keep it “fresh?” Winning the lottery that many times might get old. Yesterday’s speaker made a great point: you keep it fresh by an updated response. The cross is only as relevant as your willingness and decision to respond this week.
How will I respond, specifically? I have to think more about it.
But Sunday was a great day. I felt called to preach on “How the Kingdom Grows—Are You Blooming?” based on the parable of the sower in Matthew 13. Most of us have applied that parable to the time in our lives when we were lost—what kind of soil were we when approached with the gospel? But yesterday I wanted the Christians to think about “what kind of soil am I?” in reference to “blooming,” to being fruitful in such a way that our lives produce a crop in this world: men and women brought to faith in God in part by what we do and say. Didn’t get any boos yesterday from this message, amen.
I thought it was interesting that at the end of the parable Jesus says, that we can produce a crop, “100, 60, or 30 times what was sown.” The descending order of numbers got my attention, and seemed ironic, sort of like reporting, “the pep rally was attended by 1000’s, possibly even 100’s!”
Our family lunched at home and I tried to take a nap. I failed. So I got up and did the logical thing: I ran four miles. We had a family meeting, then, and prayed together and then watched the Oscars. I think we were mostly pulling for Little Miss Sunshine because of that little girl Olive. We filled out our ballots and bet 5 bucks a person to the family pool. Stephen won the pool, which is really shocking since he never watches movies.
Speaking of gambling, do you know where the Bible prohibits it?
I have said something untrue in today’s entry—do you know what it is?
By tomorrow I’ll get better at blogging and what I write will get more interesting.
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