A
Poem a Sunday
Proper 20B/Ordinary 25B/Pentecost 18
September 23, 2018
September 23, 2018
Jesus Again
Foretells His Death and Resurrection
30 They
went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know
it; 31 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of
Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days
after being killed, he will rise again.” 32 But they did not
understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him.
Who Is the
Greatest?
33 Then
they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were
you arguing about on the way?” 34 But they were silent, for on the
way they had argued with one another who was the greatest. 35 He sat
down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be
last of all and servant of all.” 36 Then he took a little child and
put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, 37 “Whoever
welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me
welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”
A
Poem a Sunday
Pentecost
18 – B
Great!
Here we go again.
Why? Jesus, why?
At your time
children were
of little value
until they became
of age.
So, you, once again
use the
marginalized
as an example
of what is great
in the Kingdom.
We love our
ecclesiastical pecking
order:
bishops,
assistants, profs,
parish pastors,
deacons.
We love our
congregational
pecking orders, too:
matriarchs, patriarchs,
charter members,
elder members,
youth,
new members,
children.
We want America
to be great again.
We want the Church
to be great again.
In other words:
white privilege
prevails.
But NO!
You call us to
serve,
you wash feet,
feed,
heal,
care,
love
and go
to the
cross.
While we
maintain our
privileges
and
argue
about greatness.
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