One of our members was up on Holiday Island yesterday and went to church with the Lutherans there. It was a very formal very Lutheran service, quite unlike our own worship service. In the middle of all the formality, however, was a very simple and direct sermon about faith. Our member found it quite moving.
The pastor said that "faith is like painting a picture." The painter starts out with nothing, then adds a brush stroke or two that may only complicate the picture because the brush strokes seem unrelated. Then,as more brush strokes are added--symbols for time, experience, and effort--something wonderful and sensible and lasting emerges.
The sermon took about 10 minutes to deliver but it stuck with our member all day long.
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