“Are We Amazed?” 11/5/17 Scripture: Mt 22:15-22; 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10; Ps 24 (selected “Are We Amazed?” 11/5/17 Scripture: Mt 22:15-22; 1 Thessalonians 1:1-10; Ps 24 (selected verses) by Rev. Laurie Williams verses) by Rev. Laurie Williams
The Rev. Jill Duffield, editor of the Christian Magazine The Outlook, tells the story of a man, many years older than she was in her mid-twenties at the time, who came into the affluent church where she pastored in the early years of her ministry, and asked for assistance. Certainly, in her experience, as well as mine and Rodger’s, asking for assistance is almost always indistinguishable from asking for money. She took him through the richly appointed hallways into her beautiful office laden with theological tomes and expensive furniture. She went to sit in her comfy chair behind the desk while he sat on the stiff, formal couch across the room from her desk. […]