Sin and Love [Proper 19C - I Timothy 1:12-17]
The Rev. Jeremiah Williamson I Timothy 1:12-17 Sin and Love So many sinners this Sunday – and not just in the pews. There are sinners all over these Scripture passages. Sinners making golden calves. Sinners singing psalms. Sinners writing letters – presumably to other sinners. Sinners eating lunch with Jesus. And sinners grumbling about the sinners eating lunch with Jesus. That’s a lot of sinners. And where there are sinners there is bound to be sin. I grew up in a Pentecostal church and there I heard enough sermons about sin to last me a lifetime. I knew our list of mortal sins well: strong drink, bad language, naughty thoughts, anything related to rainbow flags, and also voting for Bill Clinton. By the way, a lot of you folks would really scandalize the Pentecostals I grew up with. Of course there were many other sins as well, ones that we didn’t talk about quite as m...