Eternal Question?

I don’t attend church too often, at least physically, but I do online. My home church is downtown with limited parking and when I do get there early enough I find it difficult because it is five steps up or I have to navigate a steep hill to get to a doorway to go to an elevator. So, I get my spiritual uplift from modern internet.

After watching my home church on YouTube, I got bored due to the lack of close brotherhood I felt in the congregation and the neutrality of the lectionary-based discussion of the weekly homily. So, I tuned into the former church I attended before I moved. Instead of a conservative Episcopal church, this is a liberal UCC church whose minister is a vibrant leader in the equal rights from community activity in children’s education to voting rights to anything and everything allowing people of all colors and all genders to be live the life that Jesus taught.

Both are wonderful, compassionate men. Don’t get me wrong, the Rector of my current church is also a very liberal civil rights leader, but he rarely preaches about it from the lectern, staying mainly with the required lectionary. Thus, his Sunday messages can be a little stale.

Now that I have blathered on about the state of nothing. Let’s get down to the eternal question. I sent an email to the minister of my former church today praising him on the strength of his sermon. Then a few minutes later I sent him another that I expected no answer to, but I probably  get. I told him that if Jesus were alive today and walked up the aisle of that church today, he too would be walking in flip-flops (just as this minister was).

That got me thinking about Jesus in the marketplace upturning the tables in the den of thieves; and I wondered what and how long it would take Jesus to upturn the sacred raised mahogany benches our royal Supreme Court Justices hide behind.

Those in the marketplace made sure the leaders killed Jesus. What do you think our Supreme Court Justices would do, besides tell us that there is nothing that we could do to stop them, as they are now doing.

Jesus wants us to find God’s Truth, God’s Love  – – – always – – – that at least is the eternal answer.

Amen.

©Russell Kendall Carter; BA, MAT, DLitt.