"Easter is for Lost Things" A Sermon by Alan Sherouse

"How radical it would be if more of us looked more like shepherds. But so often in our preoccupation with power, we don’t practice vulnerability and life alongside one another. So often in our fixation on security and our fears of what’s ahead, we don’t give our lives away for others. In our conformity to the patterns of this world we don’t use the gifts of God for the sake of a wider community and call. Maybe that’s why when Jesus is asked by the crowds to tell them plainly if he is the Messiah, he tells them that he is a Shepherd. What could be more saving than that kind of vulnerable and inclusive love?"