Sunday, July 14, 2013

Sunday Sermon 7/14/13



Today's gospel is the Good Samaritan. A priest and a Levite pass by the damaged man and an outcast stops and saves him. Christ is delivering this story with, certainly, a wry smile. Established religion and infrastructure ignore the needy man; only the outsider helps. And he does not stay.

The ever-practical Margaret Thacher put an interesting spin on this religious proposition. She said:
"No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions; he had money as well." This is an astonishingly apt secular misreading of the parable. Results, indeed, do not matter. The end justifies nothing. Salve is applied, coins exchanged but the physical is nothing more than the three dimensions where the spiritual, like Christ and the Good Samaritan, are passing through.

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