STOCKI SERMON PODCAST - WHERE TO FIND JESUS IN 21st CENTURY Pt 1

I started a short new series on Sunday. It will be just 4 parts for now. A colleague Ken McBride suggested on social media somewhere that I should write a book about where to find Jesus in the 21st Century. My good mate Dave Thompson suggested it again last week. I am not sure my insights are wide enough for such an endeavour but this mini series will help me surmise if there is something there. 

This mini series will be very heavily based on the arts where I find Jesus in some of the least likely places and have to surmise if God is bypassing the Church in speaking into a modern culture who have dismissed the Church as irrelevant. So I will be looking at literature, music and TV/Film.

However I started with finding Jesus in our recent Racist riots.

I once had a fascinating experience of being on a Cape Town township at lunch time and a nice middle class church after dinner. In the latter we began with those words, "where two or three are gathered, I am in the midst". I surmised though that God might have preferred meeting me among "the least of these" on the township.

I use this and show from Matthew 25 how God wants us to respond to immigration - "I was a stranger and you invited me in". Holding back my anger I call us as individuals and a community to do the God thing. It is where we might find Jesus in the 21st century.

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