Wait, what?
Text: Matthew 13:31-33, 44-52 Tom and I recently watched a movie about some sheep who decide to become detectives to find out what happened to their shepherd whom they found dead in their field. They know what detectives are and what detectives do because their shepherd used to read mysteries to them each night. In one scene, three of the sheep - two who have never been away from their meadow and a wise old ram who is free range - are walking by a church. One sheep says, What’s this? The Ram replies: this is the church where someone named God lives. Who’s God? It’s a bit confusing. God is a shepherd. Could he be our shepherd? No. …. Because he’s also a lamb…..and he’s also invisible….and he’s made of bread and he dams things. Dams things? Like a beaver? Yes. So … God is a big invisible lamb-beaver made of bread? Yes…. And they eat him on Sundays. Poor God. And they continue ...
