You Are Everything

(For the past three years, our church has been enriched by the ministry of Fidi Mwero who has served on our pastoral staff.  Today marks the beginning of the next leg in the journey he is on, and we will miss him being with us as a part of our pastoral team.  Our prayers go with him, even as we know we remain in his.  This morning we enjoy listening to him share with us on more time.)

Have you ever needed a favor, and you knew the person you asked could give you anything, and yet you only asked for the minimum?  This is the question Pastor Fidi asks us this morning, and the question that is embedded in the passage to the right in Luke 7.  This centurian asks Jesus for help.  He is a man who knows what it is to be in a position of authority, and what it means to ask a person who is in a place of authority.  He may also be (reading between the lines a bit) a person who may be more comfortable on some level having help happen from a distance, rather than in the midst of his own home.  The reasons are hinted at in the text.  He knew something of the uneasiness that arises out of our own sense of unworthiness, and "unentitledness," that sometimes colors too much of our experience.  He finds himself in that "space" that includes both awareness of God's amazing grace, and yet a very real sense of our own apparent lack of qualification to ask.  

It is in the midst of this "space" that this story unfolds, and in which we see a reflection of a kind of faith that Jesus comments upon as exceptional.  This is the space that Pastor Fidi invites us to explore this morning as we reflect on this passage.     

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