Moving at the speed of trust
Luke 10: 1-11, 16-20 New Ark United Church of Christ, Newark, DE July 6, 2025 Screenshot of one of my tweets, dated June 11, 2025. "I feel like humans are gonna have to learn how to be human again. Could we please be on the same team this time?" How can the kin-dom of God move towards us when we live so isolated from one another? Our individualistic Western culture, not to mention a pandemic, has made us suspicious of strangers knocking on our suburban development homes. If these organizers from the Jesus movement showed up on our front doorstep today, we’d point them to the “no soliciting” sign at the entrance to our neighborhood or watch them from our Ring cameras or our window until they left. It begs the question: What does it really mean to live in a neighborhood? People who live near each other? Trust is precious and rare these days, especially if you’re part of a marginalized group of people, and most folx who are marginalized are part of more than one g...
