Ten Hits, One Run, Nine Errors
Gospel Sermons For Sundays After Pentecost (Last Third) Cycle C
On All Saints' Sunday there is a pastor who likes to take a camera into the pulpit with her. She tells the congregation that she wants some snapshots of modern, living saints. Not artists' conceptions of long-ago saints with old-fashioned clothes and halos around their heads -- but today-saints. Then she snaps pictures (with flash) of the entire congregation, from left-to-right.
The congregation is startled the first time, because they have heard of Saint Matthew, Saint Mark, Saint Luke, and Saint John -- but the people here in church today?