I Was Just Wandering... || What If I Am Part of the Problem?
Sunday, August 24, 2025 || 11:00am
Rev. Dr. Donna Claycomb Sokol || Pastor
We all carry questions—uncertainties that stir our minds late at night, linger in quiet moments, or surface when life is challenging. We regularly ruminate about success, worry, purpose, provision, faithfulness, and how God is at work in our lives and the world around us. In our sermon series, I Was Just Wondering…, we are exploring questions of faith and life as we seek to discover how the way of Jesus offers more than just answers—but new possibilities for living life fully and abundantly.
This week, we encounter Jesus stirring things up in the synagogue—not by challenging people with his teaching, but by making one person whole as he heals a woman who has been bent over for eighteen years, setting her free on the Sabbath. Instead of celebrating this act of liberation, the synagogue leader reacts with indignation.
While it might be easy to shake our heads at his response, Luke invites us to take a closer look at ourselves. Are there moments when our loyalty to rules, traditions, political affiliation, or preferences blinds us to the liberating work of God in our midst? Could it be that, sometimes, we, too, are standing in the way of the freedom God wants to bring?