Monday of the 5th Week of Easter
Act 14:5-18
How did they manage it? Paul and Barnabas attracted so much attention…celebrity status always an inch away. How did they maintain focus?
Paul and Barnabas, are being hailed as Hermes and Zeus! The crowds didn’t want to hear Paul and Barnabas point beyond their human nature to Christ. They wouldn’t hear of it. Making Gods out of our neighbors lets us off the hook.
This inclusiveness is radical still. We are all on the hook…but not on our own. Not the whole, but a part. Not the Vine Grower, not the vine, but a branch.
There are two temptations it seems to me. To get sucked into ‘celebrity’…I am the one! Or retreat into ‘I am nothing’. The challenge is to find the absolute dignity in our creaturely status as essential to the whole…one of many.
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