“The girl’s usefulness to God wasn’t set by her position, and neither is yours.”
This is As For Me and My House, week four of six, on 2 Kings 5:1-15a. A decorated general with a skin disease travels a long way for a cure, and the people who actually get him into the Jordan are a captured girl and a few servants whose names nobody wrote down. The sermon asks who brought each of us to faith, and whom we might ask next.
In the manuscript below:
A retreat for clergy couples we nearly passed up, and the late-night conversation that made it worth going.
Why the kings, the general, and the famous prophet never move this story forward.
What John Wesley’s General Rules asked of the early Methodists, and the three simple rules we still carry from them.
Three questions for the week: who asked you, whom could you ask, and what the church does when they come.
