Sermon 5.18.25 Inconvenient Jesus: The God We Would Rather Have

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“If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth, only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.”

C.S.Lewis

The God we would rather have.

“We would as soon you were stable and reliable.

We would as soon you were predictable

and always the same toward us.

We would like to take the hammer of doctrine

and take the nails of piety

and nail your feet to the floor

and have you stay in one place.

And then we find you moving,

always surprising us,

always coming at us from new directions.

Always planting usand uprooting us

and tearing all things downand making all things new.

You are not the God we would have chosen

had we done the choosing,but we are your people

and you have chosen us in freedom.

We pray for the great gift of freedom

that we may be free toward you

as you are in your world.Give us that gift of freedom

that we may move in new places

in obedience and in gratitude.

Thank you for Jesus

who embodied your freedom for all of us. Amen” 

Walter Bruegemann