Wednesday's thoughts on Sunday's sermon

The sermon pushes three areas of thought.

Here are the points I plan to try to develop:

There are people and sometimes we, ourselves, feel like we are the "elect".

But...

1. Most of the time the best we can do is to expect respect. There are times when we do get respect. We may not be seen as "the elect" but we can expect respect.

2. Sometimes we are dejected because we are rejected. We are put down and singled out. We are humiliated by other people and we understand what it means to be rejected.

3. What we can achieve in life is the realization that we are selected to be rejected because there is something we can learn from being rejected. The rejected become the selected when the rejected realize that when life says, "no" something else in life says, "yes". There is never a time when we are rejected that we cannot find something alternative that leads to something more important than what we were rejected by.

When were you rejected? Jesus, was the stone that was rejected that became the "cornerstone" for the building of God's Kingdom.

We are the rejected who become the selected if we can see it.

What thoughts do you have on this? When were you rejected? How did it feel? How did you respond?

If you would like a rough draft of the sermon I can send it to you. If you have thoughts on this subject write me at charlesschuster@fcfumc.net. If you are willing to share your thoughts with the readers of this blog click on the 'comments' box below.

I look forward to hearing from you.


Charles Schuster