Sermon - 8-29-21

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Grace to you and Peace, from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ. Pastor Ellen sent me a sermon that she used a few years ago when we had the Gospel lesson we are using today. She told me to “make it my own”, so here goes. I suspect that most of you are familiar with Pig-Pen, a major character in the Peanuts comic strip created by Charles Schulz. Constantly followed by a cloud of dirt, Pig-Pen was simply a dust magnet. In fact, Charles Schulz once called Pig-Pen a “human soil bank.” Our son Nate, whom some of you know from the years when he, Laura and the 3 kids attended Faith, was the opposite of Pig-Pen. He didn't enjoy the fun of swilling in the dirt when he and his brother Ben were young. In fact, he’d constantly try to keep clean, often licking his hands (demonstrate) to clean away any dirt on him. It drove us crazy. Finally, Connie found the cure. She made a mud pit in the backyard in Lima one mild day in late February when he was 5 ½. She announced that “we’re going to play in the mud.” (show the two slides) That took care of the keeping clean problem. Pig-Pen and my son came to mind as I studied today’s gospel lesson. The gospel writer tells of this argument between Jesus and the Pharisees, an argument about washing hands before eating. And, quite frankly, I think I probably would have sided with the Pharisees. You see, I wanted my kids to have clean hands when they came to the table for dinner. And now, the same thing for the grandkids. I want to have clean hands when I eat dinner. If I am eating out, or in today’s Covid situation, picking up food to take home, I want the people who are making my food and serving me to have clean hands. In fact, with Covid still a problem an

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