{"id":39,"date":"2009-05-15T11:44:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-15T16:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/2009\/05\/15\/may-13-20-2009-man-cleared-after-22-years-on-death-row\/"},"modified":"2009-08-24T11:26:13","modified_gmt":"2009-08-24T16:26:13","slug":"may-13-20-2009-man-cleared-after-22-years-on-death-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/may-13-20-2009-man-cleared-after-22-years-on-death-row\/","title":{"rendered":"May 13-20, 2009 &#8211; Man cleared after 22 years on death row"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span style=\"font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:arial;font-size:180%;color:#ff0000\"><strong>A BONUS FAITH LENS FOR SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2009!<\/strong><\/span><span style=\"color:#000000\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\">Contributed by <strong><em>Steven Alloway<\/em><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family:arial\">Granada Hills, CA<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"color:#000000\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><strong><span style=\"color:#993300\">Warm-up Question:<\/span><\/strong> Have you ever been punished for something you didn\u2019t do? Have you ever been let off the hook for something you DID do? <\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><span style=\"font-size:100%\">How did it turn out?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#000000\">Paul House has been on prison death row in Tennessee since 1986, after being convicted of the murder of Carolyn Muncey. He was scheduled to be executed next month, but now, after intervention by local attorneys as well as an organization called <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.innocenceproject.org\/\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#3333ff\">The Innocence Project<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#000000\">, all charges against him have been dropped, and he is free to go.<\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#000000\">The case was first reopened in June of 2006, to give House a new hearing. \u201cSubstantial additional DNA testing and further investigation has shown that he is innocent,\u201d said Peter Neufeld, co-director of the Innocence Project. \u201cEach time a layer of this case was peeled away, it revealed more evidence of Paul House&#8217;s innocence.\u201d<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#000000\">DNA evidence originally seemed to prove House\u2019s guilt, but further investigation showed that the blood samples may have been mishandled and contaminated during testing, and is in fact inconclusive.<span style=\"font-family:arial;color:#000000\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial;font-size:100%;color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#993300\">Discussion Questions<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Why do you think that, after 20 years, the House\u2019s case was finally re-opened in 2006?<\/li>\n<li>Do you agree with the court\u2019s decision to dismiss the charges against Paul House? Do you think he might still be guilty?<\/li>\n<li>How do you think House will adjust to his newfound freedom, after 22 years on death row? How different do you think his life is now from what it was in 1986?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#993300\">Scripture Texts (NRSV) for Sunday, May 17, 2009.<\/span><\/strong> (Text links are to <a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/\">oremus Bible Browser<\/a>. Oremus Bible Browser is not affiliated with or supported by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. You can find the calendar of readings for Year B at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elca.org\/Growing-In-Faith\/Worship\/Lectionary\/Year-B.aspx\">Lectionary Readings<\/a>.)<\/span>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><span style=\"font-family:Arial\"><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/?ql=109167044\">Acts 10:44-48<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/?ql=109166971\">Psalm 98 (4)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/?ql=109166943\">1 John 5:1-6<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/?ql=109166891\">John 15:9-17<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color:#993300\"><strong>For lectionary humor and insight, check the weekly comic <\/strong><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.agnusday.org\/\"><span style=\"color:#993300\"><strong>Agnus Day<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color:#993300\"><strong>.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size:130%\"><span style=\"color:#993300\"><strong>Gospel Reflection<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#993300\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">In <a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/?ql=109406698\">John 15:10<\/a>, Jesus says, \u201cIf you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love\u2026\u201d Just a chapter earlier, in <a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/?ql=109406730\">John 14:15<\/a>, Jesus says, \u201cIf you love me, you will keep my commandments.\u201d In both verses, the message is the same: love and obedience are inextricably entwined. God gave us a set of commandments. We are charged to follow them, every one, at all times. But at the same time, we know that we are doomed to fail. Every person on earth fails to keep God\u2019s commandments. We may succeed in keeping most of them most of the time, but God demands no less than perfection. We must be holy, for he is holy. And, we simply can\u2019t be that perfect.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div><span style=\"color:#993300\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">But keeping God\u2019s commandments isn\u2019t about our actions. Which ones we\u2019ve broken, which ones we\u2019ve kept, when we\u2019re going to break the next one\u2026 it\u2019s about our hearts. God gave us these commandments, not to watch us struggle to obey them, trying unsuccessfully to prove our worthiness. God gave us commandments out of love for us.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"color:#993300\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">So Jesus tells us that loving him means keeping his commandments. And keeping his commandments means loving him. And then he gives us a new commandment: to love one another, as he has loved us. If we can do that, abide in Christ\u2019s love, loving God and loving each other, then keeping God\u2019s commandments (<a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/?ql=109406757\">Exodus 20:1-17<\/a>) comes naturally. \u201cYou shall not steal.\u201d \u201cYou shall not bear false witness.\u201d \u201cYou shall not kill.\u201d Would we do these things to someone we love?<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color:#993300\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">God gave us his commandments to show us his love. They act as a mirror, to show us our sinful nature. We are unable to keep God\u2019s commandments through our own power. And when we try to, we are merely servants, slaves to sin, striving unsuccessfully to keep God\u2019s commandments because he told us to, fearing his wrath if we don\u2019t. But then in God\u2019s commandments we also see Christ\u2019s love: the greatest love there is, laying down his life in place of ours, freeing us from the bonds of sin, so that we would no longer be servants, suffering God\u2019s wrath for disobedience, but friends, with Christ\u2019s love flowing through us.<\/p>\n<p>It is only through Christ\u2019s love that we are able to love one another. And it is only in Christ\u2019s gracious love that we are able to keep God\u2019s commandments. If we have Christ\u2019s love in us &#8212; loving him and loving one another, and keeping his commandments &#8212; then Christ\u2019s joy will be in us too. A joy shared among friends and all people. Our joy will be full!\u00a0<\/p>\n<div><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#993300\">Discussion Questions<\/span><\/strong><\/div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#993300\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color:#993300\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">How can we share Christ\u2019s love with others? How can we show them both that God loves them, and that we love them?<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#993300\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">How do the actions of someone who knows he has been freed from the bonds of sin, to be called a friend of Christ, differ from the actions of someone who struggles to keep God\u2019s commandments without love, like a servant trying to avoid his master\u2019s punishment? How should we live our own lives differently, when we abide in Christ\u2019s love?<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color:#993300\"><span style=\"color:#000000\">How is our freedom from sin, to become members of the body of Christ, like Paul House\u2019s freedom from death row after 22 years, to rejoin mainstream society? How is it different?<\/span><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color:#993300\">\u00a0<\/span><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%;color:#993300\">Activity Suggestion<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Whether guilty or innocent by law, we have all sinned and fall short of the glory of God.<\/p>\n<p>Pretend you have been given the opportunity to share the gospel with Paul House. Write a conversation with him, connecting the good news of Christ to the events in his life, and using his ordeal to illustrate God\u2019s love, forgiveness, and justice for us. Use verses from today\u2019s Gospel, and any other scriptures you think might be applicable, to tell him about Christ\u2019s sacrifice for us, and our freedom from lives of sin &#8212; all sin.<br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color:#000000\"><span style=\"font-family:arial\"><span style=\"color:#993300\"><strong><span style=\"font-size:130%\">Closing Prayer<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n<em>Lord Jesus, thank you for loving me, and calling me your friend. Please help me always to abide in your love, that I may keep your commandments. And let your love flow through me, that I may spread that love to others, and love them as you also love me, that we may experience your love together and thus also your joy. Amen.<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 A BONUS FAITH LENS FOR SUNDAY, MAY 17, 2009!\u00a0 \u00a0 Contributed by Steven Alloway Granada Hills, CA\u00a0 \u00a0 Warm-up Question: Have you ever been punished for something you didn\u2019t do? Have you ever been let off the hook for something you DID do? How did it turn out? 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