Sunday, June 10, 2007
Untouchables
(backposting) At the leavers' service, we had the story of Elijah and the widow's son, and Jesus and the Widow of Nain. In both stories, the protagonist (Elijah and Jesus) make themselves ritually unclean by touching "untouchables" - in both cases, dead bodies.Our preacher preached on this. The sermon was about how we need to go beyond our comfort zone. The preacher talked about how the Friday service had been difficult, and gone beyond what was expected. The sermon identified the need to "touch the untouchables". The only problem, of course, is that those for whom the service touched their tradition, could see themselves labelled "untouchables". I'm sure that wasn't the intention, but there's the danger.
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