{"id":3254,"date":"2020-04-17T09:55:11","date_gmt":"2020-04-16T23:55:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.leighmoorunitingchurch.org.au\/?p=3254"},"modified":"2020-04-17T09:55:11","modified_gmt":"2020-04-16T23:55:11","slug":"easter-2-sermon-19-04-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leighmoorunitingchurch.org.au\/?p=3254","title":{"rendered":"Easter 2 Sermon 19-04-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Easter 2, Year A, April 19th<\/sup>, 2020<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Hymn suggestions:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Be still for the presence of the Lord, the Holy One is here<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\"pastedGraphic.png\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZugvUQ4m90U<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

398: Come down, O love divine<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CLQu6_Tjk9M<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

355: Man more than man<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

263: May daughters and my sons hear tell-<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

392: At the dawning of salvation<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

407: Breathe on me, breath of God<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M5keJHZdWYM<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

649: These things did Thomas count as real<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

691: Faith will not grow from words alone,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Bible Readings:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Acts 2: 14a, 22-32<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Psalm 16<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

1 Peter 1: 3-9<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

John 20: 19-31<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Prayer<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Loving, Easter God,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We must stay behind shut doors, but our doors are always open to you, our Divine guest.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There are no barriers for you\u2026unless we erect them.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Come into our hearts\u2026come into our homes.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

May you be the key that unlocks the strength we crave, the soothing words we need to hear, to dissolve our fears.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Amen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sermon: Break out or lock down?<\/i><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

[John 20:19-31]<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

When lock down becomes break out.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

When low mood becomes enthusiasm<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Then she said to Thomas, \u201cPut your finger here and see my hands.\u00a0 <\/span>Reach out your hand and put it in my side.\u00a0 <\/span>Do not doubt but believe.\u201d Thomas answered him, \u201cMY Lord and my God.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In 1909, Paul Engle wrote these words:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018You say you buried God (weeping you say it)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And split the flesh to its essential parts.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But you have left us bodies bright with flame,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And buried God no deeper than our hearts.\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Sunday after Easter Sunday.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We are still in the Easter season, which concludes with the celebration of Pentecost, near the end of May.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So\u2026Easter\u2026yet today is known in the church as \u2018Low Sunday.\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-the Sunday after the outburst of Easter joy.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Similar to the first Sunday after Christmas Day.\u00a0 <\/span>We feels a little flat.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Some of the excitement has gone-in a way we have reached our goal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-our Lenten journey has ended from darkness to the light of the empty tomb, seen at dawn.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Now we are back-on the other side of the mountain-back in the valley.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We have finished our Hot Cross buns<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We have consumed our chocolate quota for the year<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We have grieved and moved through to rejoicing.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And now<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-we are left coping with the Easter victory, in our ordinary lives.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Our Bible reading depicts a confused, dispirited group huddled behind locked doors on Easter morning.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, the women had said \u201cWe have seen the Lord\u201d -but they were not believed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s typical isn\u2019t it-women are sometimes blamed, or labelled as being too emotional, even hysterical, in times of grief.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It is worth noting that in Jesus\u2019 time (and this is still the case in some countries in the world today), women\u2019s testimony did not count as reliable, or even legal witness.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In western society, in our main-line churches, we could say we have known nothing but crucifixion, or death<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

– slow decay<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-empty churches<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-decline in numbers<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-ageing congregations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-absence of children and youth.\u00a0 <\/span>Think back to Sunday School numbers when you were young.\u00a0 <\/span>Sunday School picnics were wonderful occasions.\u00a0 <\/span>Church socials\/events were often the places where young people met, fell in love\u2026another wedding in the church.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

But now?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Decline.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Even Easter, the most important event in the Christian calendar, which makes it on to the secular calendar but:\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

if<\/i> <\/i>you only listened to secular society you\u2019d think it was a 4 day holiday invented by confectionary manufacturers to honour something to do with bunnies!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Sometimes we, the church, feel small, powerless, without the numbers.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-seen as irrelevant in society.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Even some politicians say that.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The church may feel that it is dying<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-numbers are down-how can we become excited about the resurrection, when we see decay in our midst?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Shouldn\u2019t our numbers be larger as people of the resurrection?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In the reading from John, it\u2019s Sunday evening, 2 days after Jesus was crucified.\u00a0 <\/span>Ten disciples are hiding in an upper room.\u00a0 <\/span>Judas has taken his life, Thomas is somewhere else.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

That morning they had been told by the women that Jesus\u2019 tomb was empty.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

They are scared.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Would they be blamed for the theft of the body-an act that warranted capital punishment by the Romans?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Huddled together, frightened.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Then suddenly Jesus stood among them and greeted them with<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeace be with you.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

He showed them the holes in his hands and side.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And he gave them the gift of the Holy Spirit-a very different account from the one from Acts.\u00a0 <\/span>Here Jesus is depicted as breathing the Holy Spirit into the disciples in the same way that God breathed life and Spirit into the first human beings.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Nothing more than a breath\u2026but it blew open a securely locked door.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The huddled, fearful disciples-behind locked, bolted doors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-were broken into<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-breathed on<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-given the gift of the Spirit.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Remember Aslan, the Christ figure, in C.S. Lewis\u2019s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/i>?\u00a0 <\/span>After Aslan has risen from the dead, Aslan brings the stone statues of the creatures of Narnia back to life by breathing on them.\u00a0 <\/span>He bounds up to a stone lion:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018I expect you\u2019ve seen someone put a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny streak of flame creeping along the edge of the newspaper. It was like that now. For a second after Aslan had breathed upon him the stone lion looked just the same. Then a tiny streak of gold began to run along his white marble back\u2014then it spread\u2014then the color seemed to lick all over him as the flame licks all over a bit of paper\u2014then, while his hindquarters were still obviously stone, the lion shook his mane and all the heavy, stone folds rippled into living hair. Then he opened a great red mouth, warm and living, and gave a prodigious yawn. And now his hind legs had come to life. He lifted one of them and scratched himself. Then, having caught sight of Aslan, he went bounding after him and frisking round him whimpering with delight and jumping up to lick his face.\u2019(from Chapter 16, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe<\/i>)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeace be with you.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

BUT-who was missing?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Thomas!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

When he returns, they urge Thomas to take their word for it-and one week later the scene is repeated.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

When we read this passage, we usually focus on Thomas\u2019s doubt or his disbelief<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

BUT let\u2019s look at the other disciples.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

What happens?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Have they changed?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

They have been confined, as Jesus found them the first time.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

IF they have continued for another week, shut in the house where Jesus first found them<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

They BELIEVE BUT have they shown any evidence of that new faith in the way they behave?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Where is the \u201cpeace be with you\u201d?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Where is the decrease of fear?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The moving out to proclaim what they had seen and how they had received the Spirit?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps we can be a little more tolerant of Thomas.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

MAYBE Thomas remained sceptical-because he couldn\u2019t see any evidence in their behaviour that their new commitment to the risen Christ had made them persons of courage and action!<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus again said \u201cPeace be with you.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Their lives are transformed.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-transformed-becoming living witnesses to the meaning of the resurrection and the reality of the risen Christ.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The disciples each come to experience and believe in the risen Christ in their own way<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-for Mary Magdalene it is in hearing her name lovingly spoken by Jesus, in the garden<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-for John-it was seeing the linen cloths lying in the empty tomb-and seeing the truth for himself<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-for Thomas-it was through questioning and being able to see and touch.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

For some-it was discovering Christ\u2019s presence in their midst despite their fear.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-even if it meant a push out of a locked, secure room.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We experience faith differently-and seeing the variety of responses from the disciples, remind us of this. We also live out our faith differently-some stand on street corners and proclaim their faith, others move through their community quietly, helping those in need.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

What about us?<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We, as the church, are meant to be excited, ecstatic with Easter joy,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Yet at times, we are locked behind our doors of fear, our closed doors of despair.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We worry-and are concerned, consumed by our own self-defeating doubts.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Perhaps society is right-we are irrelevant<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Yes, we could stay behind locked doors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

WE lock ourselves IN<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

BUT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

There is a knock at the door<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-a breath upon us.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It is the Risen Christ<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-who breathes upon us<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-who gives us some of that same power which empowered him.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Gerald Manley Hopkins wrote in one of his poems:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Our king back\u2026<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Let him easter in us\u2026\u2019<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Let him easter in us\u2019-here Easter is a verb, a \u2018doing word\u2019-a word of action.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

As Easter people we are empowered to \u2018do\u2019 something<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-to proclaim the Good News<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-to move out from behind shut doors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

-to be less fearful.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Our faith is demonstrated in our actions, our deeds.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We could call this \u2018Low Sunday\u2019 if we wish to remain fearful, inactive, shut-in<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

OR<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

We could move from this place of worship with freshness, with the Spirit, as Easter people.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Let him easter in us.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

I invite you to move from lock down\u2026to break out!\u00a0 <\/span>In spirit only, you still have to stay behind your front door!! The challenge is how to be resurrection people, Easter people, how to \u2018easter\u2019 behind shut doors, during lock down.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

By praying, by phoning people, by the writing of letters, sending of texts, zoom meetings, by tending God\u2019s creation by gardening, really, by keeping in touch with Christ, and with each other. BY LOVING.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Jesus said to them again, \u201cPeace be with you.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

And\u2026as the stone lion bounded up to Aslan\u2026may we bound up to our Christ, and let him easter in us.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Amen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Blessing<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

May the coming week be grace filled, decorated with love.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

May the jewels of silence, of stillness, creep into your very being, and refresh you with peace, and with courage.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Go and easter, as resurrection people.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

In the name of God, who created you,<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

in the name of Christ, who loves you<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

and in the name of the Holy Spirit who continues to inspire and comfort you.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Amen.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u2018Be still, and know that I am God.\u2019 (Psalm 46: 10)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

19.4.20 Leighmoor UC: Rev Barbara Allen<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Easter 2, Year A, April 19th, 2020 Hymn suggestions: Be still for the presence of the Lord, the Holy One is here https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZugvUQ4m90U 398: Come down, O love divine https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CLQu6_Tjk9M 355: Man more than man 263: May daughters and my sons hear tell- 392: At the dawning of salvation 407: Breathe on me, breath of God https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=M5keJHZdWYM 649: These things did Thomas count as real 691: Faith will not grow from words alone, Bible Readings: Acts 2: 14a, 22-32 Psalm 16 1 Peter 1: 3-9 John 20: 19-31 Prayer Loving, Easter God, We must stay behind shut doors, but our doors are always open to you, our Divine guest. There are no barriers for you\u2026unless we erect them. Come into our hearts\u2026come into our homes. May you be the key that unlocks the strength we crave, the soothing words we need to hear, to dissolve our fears. Amen Sermon: Break out or lock down? [John 20:19-31] When lock down becomes break out. When low mood becomes enthusiasm \u2018Then she said to Thomas, \u201cPut your finger here and see my hands.\u00a0 Reach out your hand and put it in my side.\u00a0 Do not doubt but believe.\u201d Thomas answered him, \u201cMY Lord and my God.\u201d In 1909, Paul Engle wrote these words: \u2018You say you buried God (weeping you say it) And split the flesh to its essential parts. But you have left us bodies bright with flame, And buried God no deeper than our hearts.\u2019 The Sunday after Easter Sunday. We are still in the Easter season, which concludes with the celebration of Pentecost, near the end of May. So\u2026Easter\u2026yet today is known in the church as \u2018Low Sunday.\u2019 -the Sunday after the outburst of Easter joy. Similar to the first Sunday after Christmas Day.\u00a0 We feels a little flat. Some of the excitement has gone-in a way we have reached our goal -our Lenten journey has ended from darkness to the light of the empty tomb, seen at dawn. Now we are back-on the other side of the mountain-back in the valley. We have finished our Hot Cross buns We have consumed our chocolate quota for the year We have grieved and moved through to rejoicing. And now -we are left coping with the Easter victory, in our ordinary lives. Our Bible reading depicts a confused, dispirited group huddled behind locked doors on Easter morning. Yes, the women had said \u201cWe have seen the Lord\u201d -but they were not believed. That\u2019s typical isn\u2019t it-women are sometimes blamed, or labelled as being too emotional, even hysterical, in times of grief. It is worth noting that in Jesus\u2019 time (and this is still the case in some countries in the world today), women\u2019s testimony did not count as reliable, or even legal witness. In western society, in our main-line churches, we could say we have known nothing but crucifixion, or death – slow decay -empty churches -decline in numbers -ageing congregations -absence of children and youth.\u00a0 Think back to Sunday School numbers when you were young.\u00a0 Sunday School picnics were wonderful occasions.\u00a0 Church socials\/events were often the places where young people met, fell in love\u2026another wedding in the church. But now? Decline. Even Easter, the most important event in the Christian calendar, which makes it on to the secular calendar but:\u00a0 if you only listened to secular society you\u2019d think it was a 4 day holiday invented by confectionary manufacturers to honour something to do with bunnies! Sometimes we, the church, feel small, powerless, without the numbers. -seen as irrelevant in society. Even some politicians say that. The church may feel that it is dying -numbers are down-how can we become excited about the resurrection, when we see decay in our midst? Shouldn\u2019t our numbers be larger as people of the resurrection? In the reading from John, it\u2019s Sunday evening, 2 days after Jesus was crucified.\u00a0 Ten disciples are hiding in an upper room.\u00a0 Judas has taken his life, Thomas is somewhere else. That morning they had been told by the women that Jesus\u2019 tomb was empty. They are scared. Would they be blamed for the theft of the body-an act that warranted capital punishment by the Romans? Huddled together, frightened. Then suddenly Jesus stood among them and greeted them with \u201cPeace be with you.\u201d He showed them the holes in his hands and side. And he gave them the gift of the Holy Spirit-a very different account from the one from Acts.\u00a0 Here Jesus is depicted as breathing the Holy Spirit into the disciples in the same way that God breathed life and Spirit into the first human beings. Nothing more than a breath\u2026but it blew open a securely locked door. The huddled, fearful disciples-behind locked, bolted doors -were broken into -breathed on -given the gift of the Spirit. Remember Aslan, the Christ figure, in C.S. Lewis\u2019s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe?\u00a0 After Aslan has risen from the dead, Aslan brings the stone statues of the creatures of Narnia back to life by breathing on them.\u00a0 He bounds up to a stone lion: \u2018I expect you\u2019ve seen someone put a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny streak of flame creeping along the edge of the newspaper. It was like that now. For a second after Aslan had breathed upon him the stone lion looked just the same. Then a tiny streak of gold began to run along his white marble back\u2014then it spread\u2014then the color seemed to lick all over him as the flame licks all over a bit of paper\u2014then, while his hindquarters were still obviously stone, the lion shook his mane and all the heavy, stone folds rippled into living hair. Then he opened a great red mouth, warm and living, and gave a prodigious yawn. And now his hind legs had come to life. 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