These mixed metaphors, especially the last one, show what is easy for some and challenging for others.
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FULL TRANSCRIPT: Have you heard this one? Don’t play with fire or you’ll get stung? Or, be careful of the car coming up behind you because it’s flashing its horn. Or, we were afraid the project would snowball into a can of worms. Those are mixed metaphors, and here’s another.
There are these two guys—brothers—and they’re doing their thing. They’re fishermen. And, all of a sudden, this stranger comes up and says, “I will make you fishers of people.”
That’s the New Living Translation of the scripture that we have this Sunday. And speaking of Sundays, this is my twelfth year as pastor in a single place. And in all of this time, I keep learning that scripture is timeless. That its meaning—its relevance—is in the now.
This story of Andrew and Simon, the brothers, meeting Jesus and immediately following him to fish for people speaks to the here and now where there are people who immediately get
Jesus and then there are others who spend an entire life struggling over the character of this Son of God.
This Sunday we will talk honestly about the struggles in the sermon series, “The Word is a lamp.” Join us. Until Sunday, may God Bless you and amen.