Holy Trinity Sermon out-take
A few sentences I had to cut from tomorrow's sermon, so I am letting them live here:
Much ink and much blood has been spilled on the matter of the Trinity doctrine.
Are we celebrating God as bad math? 1+1+1=1?
Why don’t we add some other church doctrine festivals? We could have “Substitutionary Atonement” Sunday where we celebrate God as angry cigar chopping loan shark demanding his pound of flesh. Or perhaps “Divine Inspiration of Scripture” Sunday and celebrate God as confused librarian.
Nice outtakes. When in doubt, just quote "Dogma"...which seems to be just one step away from Church Doctrine Sunday!
"Christ didn't come to Earth to give us the willies. He came to help us out."
Or
Cardinal Glick: Fill those pews people! That's the key. Grab the little ones as well. Hook 'em while they're young.
Rufus: Kind of like the tobacco industry?
I just took the "easy" way out and talked about discipleship in my sermon.
Posted by:Erik U. | May 17, 2008 at 05:28 PM
How about Women Don't Have Souls Sunday? A salute to 2000 years of fun-filled church misogyny!
I'd like to see your Trinity Sunday sermon, if that's okay with you. Rev. Klawitter did a good job in being necessarily vague about the nature of the Trinity, but it'd be fun to see another opinion.
Posted by:Jessica Glaser | May 20, 2008 at 05:54 PM
How 'bout "Biblical Literalism Sunday" where we stone our rebelious children?
Posted by:Benton | May 27, 2008 at 05:37 AM