Some too-good-not-to-share fragment's from Pastor Jon's last sermon (delivered in the awful wake of three American school shootings in ten days):
"The idea of 'what terrible thing might come next' can jeopardize our mission and ministry We can be held hostage by fear...
Christianity has always struggled with empire. But we are called to struggle faithfully, and sometimes even to suffer well...
We believe that Jesus is the living embodiment of God. But that belief does not give us weapons to defeat other people; it gives us towels and basins with which to serve them...
To follow a peace-loving Savior with the weapons of violence is to misunderstand the one we call Savior...
Perfect love drives out fear. And we are not alone." -Rev. Jon Middendorf
Amen!
