Jesus is Lord
Ephesians4:17-32 One of the more intimidating questions a person seeking ordination has to answer is about the historic proclamation that Jesus is Lord. And yet, the longer I have lived with that question, the less it feels like a vocabulary test and the more it feels like an examination of my whole life. Because saying Jesus is Lord is not the same thing as saying Jesus is meaningful to me. It is not the same thing as saying Jesus is inspiring. It is not the same thing as saying Jesus is part of my family story or my Sunday rhythm. To say Jesus is Lord is to say that Jesus has a claim on me: on my body, my choices, my speech, my money, my loyalties, my habits, and the way I react when I am tired and someone has managed to find the exact last nerve I had available. This is the vow before us in this third week of our series about loving boldly. In baptism, and in every reaffirmation of baptism, the church asks...