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Today's scriptures are Romans 13:11-14
Second Sunday in Advent, December 5 2021
The Sermon "Willie Wonka and the Advent Factory" Dr. David Cagle
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A NOTE FROM THE PASTOR
December 2, 2021
“Willie Wonka and the Advent Factor”
Romans 13:11-14
“Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers.” (vs. 11)
Note:
Please read the announcement below about our Congregational Meeting this Sunday. The Vision Planning Team will present our Mission Study Report, and the Finance Committee will present a motion to purchase and mortgage property.
I first preached this sermon years ago when I was an associate pastor. I had several members tell me it was their all-time favorite sermon. Other members said it was the craziest sermon they ever heard, and they wondered if I was starting to lose it. Basically, in the sermon, I present an interpretation of this scripture reading using an allegorical comparison to the story of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Our reading from Romans 13 charges us to “Wake up!” because the “night is far gone; the day is near.” To be perfectly clear, Paul writes, “Let us lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light…Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ.”
As Christians, we are called to see the world and to live differently in God’s world because of our faith in Jesus Christ. Paul uses the imagery of night and darkness to represent the way in which some people live their lives “reveling…in quarreling and jealously.” “Wake up! Writes Paul and live your live in the hope of the coming day, the coming of Jesus.
But what has this got to do with Willie Wonka? Well, you will have to come to worship this Sunday and find out.
In Christ’s Service,
David Cagle
Interim Pastor
Romans 13:11-14
“Besides this, you know what time it is, how it is now the moment for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we became believers.” (vs. 11)
Note:
Please read the announcement below about our Congregational Meeting this Sunday. The Vision Planning Team will present our Mission Study Report, and the Finance Committee will present a motion to purchase and mortgage property.
I first preached this sermon years ago when I was an associate pastor. I had several members tell me it was their all-time favorite sermon. Other members said it was the craziest sermon they ever heard, and they wondered if I was starting to lose it. Basically, in the sermon, I present an interpretation of this scripture reading using an allegorical comparison to the story of Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Our reading from Romans 13 charges us to “Wake up!” because the “night is far gone; the day is near.” To be perfectly clear, Paul writes, “Let us lay aside the works of darkness and put on the armor of light…Instead, put on the Lord Jesus Christ.”
As Christians, we are called to see the world and to live differently in God’s world because of our faith in Jesus Christ. Paul uses the imagery of night and darkness to represent the way in which some people live their lives “reveling…in quarreling and jealously.” “Wake up! Writes Paul and live your live in the hope of the coming day, the coming of Jesus.
But what has this got to do with Willie Wonka? Well, you will have to come to worship this Sunday and find out.
In Christ’s Service,
David Cagle
Interim Pastor
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