Episode 400: Let’s Go To Work

In the name of the Father, the Son, the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

Oh, Lord, we just thank you for the gift of faith, the gift of this new day.

for the call on our lives, for the fact we get to do this.

This is our work.

We get to talk about you.

We get to preach you.

We get to witness to you, mindful of how incredibly broken at least I am.

Never let us reduce this to a job.

Let it never become a chore.

Let our life as disciples always be filled with grace and an awareness of the drama that Jesus has called us to.

Help us to understand that we've been invited to do nothing less than to help change the world by the power of the Holy Spirit.

We ask all these things in Jesus's name.

Amen.

In the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Amen.

So Father John, the gospel that we're going to hear next Sunday comes from Matthew chapter 21 and it's verses 28 through 32.

He said in reply, But did not go.

Which of the two did his father's will? And they answered, the first.

Jesus said to them, Amen, I say to you, tax collectors and prostitutes are entering the kingdom of God before you.

When John came to you in the way of righteousness, you did not believe him, but tax collectors and prostitutes did.

Yet even when you saw that, you did not later change your minds and

believe in him.