Since 2005 I have chosen the OBOP text to be in conversation with our Scriptural texts for Lent; generally the task has been easy (come the Sundays), and generally each text has stretched my comfort level botha s regards content and style (graphic novels! poetry!).
There have been a few at the church (though only two have spoken to me directly and one of them left the church some years back) who have expressed dislike for the program; a rather sad rumour even was promulgated that there was some financial benefit for the church to engage in such a program. How sad that someone could think this, believe it, and then pass it on as "gospel". But such is the stuff of community life from which no Christian community is exempt (at least none that I have known... so far!).
We engage in the program to establish the truth that we know and care about what is happening in the wider community; our church is not one that only engages in real life when it suits or pleases us. It is a vital Christian pattern that we allow our sacred text to engage with and speak to the texts read, seen and shared in the community beyond church stone walls.
Anyway... I was prompted to write this post because visiting the studio made me appreciate (as always) the skill of professionals in whatever is their task. Reminds me that St. Paul urges us to be skillful work-people, rightly handling the word of truth.
And... the little interview took place as I spoke to a disembodied head in the camera before me... definitely got my attention? Made me think though that sometimes preachers feel as if they experience quite the opposite as they preach... decapitated bodies (at least for the duration of the sermon).
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