A note: This is the manuscript I preached at the 10:15 AM service. Pastor Chantel Makarawa, our Associate Pastor, preached her own message at the 8:30 AM service on the same scripture.
“Justice without humility hardens into a crusade, and kindness without humility turns into condescension.”
This is As For Me and My House, week five of six, on Micah 1:3-5; 5:2-5a; 6:6-8. A worshiper keeps raising his offer to God, from burnt offerings to thousands of rams to his own child, and Micah answers with one sentence and three verbs. The sermon asks what doing justice, embracing faithful love, and walking humbly look like for a church in McPherson County this year.
In the manuscript below:
A historical marker in Leavenworth with three names on it, and what it means to say plainly what you see.
Why Micah names two capital cities instead of one bad person.
What John Wesley meant in 1739 when he wrote of “no holiness but social holiness.”
A food pantry and a nine-week class called Getting Ahead, and why this church needs both.
