{"id":510,"date":"2007-08-27T12:54:47","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T12:54:47","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-08-27T12:54:47","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T12:54:47","slug":"when-the-going-gets-rough-join-gods-holy-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centernet.pcusa.org\/food-faith\/when-the-going-gets-rough-join-gods-holy-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"When the going gets rough, join God’s holy mission of justice and healing"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Food and Faith Blog highlights ways people are
\nbuilding life-giving food systems based on community, sustainability, faith and
\nlove, as well as ways our agri-food
\nsystems all too often fail to give glory to God. That is reality, and related to this reality, I want to share some words and images from our worship service yesterday in Louisville.<\/p>\n\"Bridge2600\"<\/a>\n

This is a scene of the tragic collapse of the bridge in Minneapolis, an image pastor Jane picked up to illustrate the breakdown of systems and ways of behaving that fail to give life. <\/p>\n

Cranky old Jeremiah and the sermon at Crescent Hill Presbyterian Church inspire me to try to be a worthy disciple, in the midst of the crumbling all around us that Rev. Jane Larsen-Wigger preached on:<\/p>\n

"…The Minneapolis bridge collapse recently seems an
\nall-too-fitting illustration of what is happening to our nation. Old structures are just not holding. And
\nwe’re not just talking bridges here \u2013 but also our political system, networks
\nof care, even the very air we breathe.<\/p>\n

\"Revolvingdoor\"<\/a>
\n"…There
\nis other evidence too: take the fact that there will be a high correlation
\nbetween the party nominees for president and the amount of money behind them. Or the increasing frequency that decisions
\nthat are meant to aid the public are happening more and more in back rooms and
\ncorporate board rooms and in secret meetings among a relatively small number of
\npeople<\/a>. And more and more rarely do we
\nsee that it is those with no money or power who come out winning."<\/p>\n

Thankfully, Jane didn’t leave it there. She painted a picture of a beloved community in our midst, beyond "institutional maintenance, preoccupied with
\nmerely surviving \u2013 just like we always have. We are not called just to hunker
\ndown together against the ills of the world. Not called to support unquestioningly the government or any other
\ninstitution – including the church. We are called instead to be a prophetic
\ncommunity that is about God’s business of transformation and healing."<\/p>\n

Actually, better to read the sermon yourself! Read on, read on…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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