Loading...Introduction: reflection of wife Jean’s story of a Buddhist hutan refugee family, settinga meeting with her about why the embers of 4th Ave UM are cannibals since they are eating the body and blood of Jesus. That is a great story. Would that we all would be so thrown, so offended, so scandalized by the challenge of our faith. Those who were the first followers sure were.
Might we all be as dumfounded by Jesus as the disciples are in our gospel story today. Because that is an appropriate response to reality. We come up here to drink blood?
We all know good and well that most of us who have live here in the United States are considered wealthy by world standards – the rich through an eye of a needle? They asked, in all honesty, Can anyone at all be saved?
