Come and See!
Sermon preached at Grace Episcopal Church, Monroe, La., 8/2/15
Can
anything good come out of Nazareth? Come and see!
Nathaniel is the questioner; Philip is the answerer. Or so
it was 2000+ years ago on a dusty road to Galilee!
Which are you at this moment in time and in this place? Nathaniel?
Or Philip? I ask because I can see and hear myself in both of these guys.
I ask because, as I read the Gospels, over and over I see
myself, and all of us, in the disciples—both when they are getting it, and when
they are missing the point entirely.
This morning I would rather be Philip, the one pointing the
way to the Good News of Jesus the Christ. Come
and see!
Isn’t that our primary job as Christians?
But I am perfectly clear that sometimes I am Nathaniel,
allowing my prejudices or my hurt feelings or my disapproval of… whatever, to
blind me to the redeeming grace of God. Can
anything good come of that?
