if you’ve been made serve the master
you’d be frightened by the open hand The Holy Gospel according to St. Luke! We can relate to this story, can’t we? Those of us who have been commissioned to share the Good News; we all know what it’s like to lose our voice… There are a few reasons the church loses its voice these days. First; we’re not as powerful as we once were. There’s more folks who mark “no religion” on their census, than there are Lutherans, you know. We lose our voice as one after another, more and more folks walk away from the church… Second, in these changing days, we’re far too likely to turn on each other. In the face of the new challenges the church must address, we turn on each other and fall into internal dissension. We lose our voice when we get too caught up in our own little squabbles to bother speaking to those folks who have walked away from the church; or those folks who have never been in a church in the first place. The most devious reason we lose our voi...
