{"id":5561,"date":"2015-09-08T21:12:59","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T02:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/?p=5561"},"modified":"2015-09-29T21:16:10","modified_gmt":"2015-09-30T02:16:10","slug":"september-13-2015-how-long-oh-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/september-13-2015-how-long-oh-lord\/","title":{"rendered":"September 13, 2015, How Long, Oh Lord"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"author\">Amy Martinell, Sioux Falls, SD<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"ExternalClassB6B30F646FD143C08AF9651639625287\">\n<p>\u200b<\/p>\n<p><strong>Warm-up Question<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know about all of you, but I love to be right.\u00a0 I love it.\u00a0 Sometimes this is a really great quality; it drives me to do extra reading and research until I am sure I have the &#8220;right&#8221; information.\u00a0 Other times, it does not bring out the best in me.\u00a0 It can cause me to do not great things, like bring up an old argument when I&#8217;ve found new &#8220;proof&#8221; that I was right.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When was a time you were excited to have the right answer?<\/li>\n<li>How do you behave in an argument?\u00a0 Do you seek out compromise or hold on tight to your stance no matter what?\u00a0 How do you behave differently depending on whether you are dealing with friends, parents, or people you don&#8217;t know as well?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>How Long, Oh Lord, How Long<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"Textbody\">Last Wednesday as I sat down to begin writing this post, news broke of the fatal shooting of journalists Alison Parker and Adam Ward.\u00a0 The horror was magnified as the violent act happened during a live broadcast. The typical interview dissolved into a dropped camera, screams, and gunshots before cutting back to a shocked anchor in the studio. Soon the station was reporting on the deaths of Parker and Ward, as well as on injuries to the woman being interviewed.\u00a0 Later that day we heard the alleged shooter, Vester Lee Flanagan II, was also dead due to a self-inflicted gun wound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Textbody\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5562 size-full\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2015\/09\/shutterstock_233436193edit.jpg\" alt=\"shutterstock_233436193edit\" width=\"250\" height=\"199\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We now hear the shooter was a disgruntled employee who claimed racial discrimination and sexual harassment pushed him over the edge, but such assertions are not nearly enough of an explanation or justification for his actions.\u00a0 We are still left with questions:\u00a0 Why is there such senseless violence?\u00a0 Why is life treated so cheaply? Why does this keep happening over and over again?\u00a0\u00a0 Of course, questions are already be raised again about mental illness and gun control, but the real question seems to be, \u201cHow long?\u201d\u00a0 How long, oh Lord, how long can we stand such distress?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>How did you feel when you heard the news of the shooting?<\/li>\n<li>How do you respond in the face of tragedy?\u00a0 Do you need time alone to process?\u00a0 Do you want to work for change and seek out new ways of doing things or does it cause you to shut down and do nothing?<\/li>\n<li>When tragedy like the Virginia shooting happens we have a hard time understanding why this could happen. What in your own life do you have a hard time making sense of?\u00a0 What are times and situations where you feel like things have been unfair?\u00a0 What problems feel too big to change?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Lectionary 24 \/ Sixteenth Sunday after Pentecost<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/?ql=307684555\">Isaiah 50:4-9a<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/?ql=307684609\">James 3:1-12<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bible.oremus.org\/?ql=307684655\">Mark 8:27-38\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>(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\/Our-Work\/Congregations-and-Synods\/Worship\/Lectionary\/YearB\">Lectionary Readings<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For lectionary humor and insight, check the weekly comic <a href=\"http:\/\/www.agnusday.org\/\">Agnus Day.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gospel Reflection<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Peter has the right answer.\u00a0 Peter has just had his gold star moment.\u00a0 He looked at Jesus and said no, you are not a prophet, you are not Elijah.\u00a0 You are the Messiah. You are the one who came to save us.\u00a0 Bingo!\u00a0 Peter has the right answer, but he doesn&#8217;t even get a second to savor his success.\u00a0 Instead, Jesus begins to talk about suffering and death.\u00a0Peter stops him; this is not the Messiah he wants.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Textbody\">Of course, when asked who Jesus is, we know the right answer.\u00a0 We know Jesus is the Messiah, the one sent to save the world.\u00a0 Yet, I often find myself in the same place as Peter wanting to pull Jesus aside and ask him to be the savior I want, the God I want.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Textbody\">As I am rocked with yet another senseless shooting, as wildfires rage the west coast, as race relations continue to be contentious, I find myself growing both weary and angry.\u00a0 Where is our Messiah?\u00a0 Why aren&#8217;t we saved from all of this suffering and death and despair?\u00a0 Why God won\u2019t you act?<\/p>\n<p class=\"Textbody\">We live awaiting the promise of our Lord&#8217;s return and redemption, but as we wait, we wait in a fallen world.\u00a0\u00a0 And if you are like me, you grow weary, grow angry at this fallen world.\u00a0 Jesus is not a superhero savior swooping in to remove us from any suffering, but Jesus is present in these awful situations.\u00a0 Jesus is found in those who are there to help. \u00a0Jesus is found those reaching out with love and compassion; he is found in those working and praying for change.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Textbody\">Most of all Jesus is found wherever life is proclaimed over death.\u00a0 So even as we grow weary, as we grow angry, we remember our hope is found in Jesus Christ and Jesus will not disappoint.\u00a0\u00a0 We cling to the promise that Jesus will come again and redeem the world, will come again and right the many wrongs.\u00a0 We cannot heal the world from all the evils we see and luckily we don\u2019t have to, that is the work of our Lord. We cling to the promise Jesus will come again to redeem the world, so maybe the real question is:\u00a0 What will we do as we wait?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Jewish people waited for a messiah to rescue them foreign opposition and restore Israel.\u00a0 When Peter named Jesus the Messiah he was most likely looking for a military leader to lead Israel to glory.\u00a0 How was Jesus an unexpected messiah?\u00a0 How did he better fulfill the role of messiah?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>What does it mean when we name Jesus our messiah?\u00a0 When and how have you wished God would be different?\u00a0 When has God played an unexpected or surprising role in your life?<\/li>\n<li>Where have you seen God in hard times in your own life?\u00a0 When has God felt absent?<\/li>\n<li>Theologians often call our current time &#8220;the already, but not yet&#8221; because Jesus has already saved us from sin, death and the devil, but has not yet come again.\u00a0 So I offer the question again, &#8220;What will we do while we wait?&#8221;\u00a0 What are ways you can make the world a little better?\u00a0 When have small acts of kindness done by others made a big impact on you?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Activity Suggestions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Make idols! <\/strong>We are all guilty of trying to make God into the gods we want.\u00a0 We are also guilty of making other things and people into our gods.\u00a0 Whatever we give our time, our money and our hearts to become our gods.\u00a0 Use play-dough to make figures of all the false idols in your life.\u00a0 When you are done, smash the idols to confess your wayward heart and offer a pray of thanksgiving to our Lord who welcomes back all wayward sinners.<\/li>\n<li><strong>What keeps you up at night?<\/strong> List together all of the things that bother you, which keep you up at night, which make you angry or sad or scared.\u00a0 The list will seem big and intimidating, but start small.\u00a0 Brainstorm and research the items on your list.\u00a0 Then create a make a change list and list small (or big) ways you could get involved and work for change.\u00a0 Encourage every person to commit to doing one thing on your make a change list.\u00a0 Check in on how everyone is doing next time you are together.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Closing Prayer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Dear Messiah, We pray for you to come again.\u00a0 As we wait, energize us show your love in all we do.\u00a0 Amen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amy Martinell, Sioux Falls, SD \u200b Warm-up Question I don&#8217;t know about all of you, but I love to be right.\u00a0 I love it.\u00a0 Sometimes this is a really great quality; it drives me to do extra reading and research until I am sure I have the &#8220;right&#8221; information.\u00a0 Other times, it does not bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1400],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-post"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - 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