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so I’m inviting you to join me in this fight

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to go down to the river, and come up all three times A reading from Acts 2 It’s one of those questions that cuts through it all. One that lays our humanity, our brokenness bare . “Brothers,” the crowd asked after Peter’s sermon, “ what should we do ?” …What should we do? And who among us here hasn’t wondered that? When you’re cut to the heart. When you’re overwhelmed by it all and the words just come tumbling out, “What should I do.” We’ve all been there.  Life has a way of doing that. Of pressing us up against it. Of making it all too plain, we don’t know what to do. We’re lost . The circumstances of life have left us helpless… “What should we do?” And, who hasn’t been on the other side of it, either? Sitting across the table from a friend, a child, a brother or sister who’s in trouble. Listening as they lay it all out. What they’re up against. What’s happened to them. The news they got from an unexpected call.  They lay it all out to y...