In pondering why young people don't go to church, Robin Meyers, pastor of very progressive Mayflower Church in very conservative Oklahoma City, comments:

"So much of our theology in church has been so hopelessly remote, along with our concept of God. But humans live in the real world. They walk on streets with real names and love particular people in all their magnificent imperfection. We step on real bugs as they scurry across the floor. We get into real fights and say terrible things. We worry about real pain that begins in our fingertips and travels ominously up our arm. . . .We don't live our lives in general, love in general, or sin in a general sort of way. We are very specific about it. Which may be the last, best hope for Christianity. At its heart, there is nothing general about it, but something very specific, very concrete, and very human. We call it incarnation.

Rev. Robin R. Meyers in Saving God from the Church

May we remember constantly that we, the saints of the Franklin Federated Church, praise God in this world by being and serving humanity as best we can.

Lenten Devotions
March 9, 2021