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<\/a><\/p>\nThen they said to him, \u201cWhat shall we do to you, that the sea may quiet down for us?\u201d For the sea grew more and more tempestuous.<\/span>\u00a0He said to them, \u201cPick me up and hurl me into the sea; then the sea will quiet down for you,\u00a0for I know it is because of me that this great tempest has come upon you.\u201d<\/span> \u00a0<\/sup>Nevertheless, the men rowed hard to get back to dry land, but they could not, for the sea grew more and more tempestuous against them.<\/span> \u00a0<\/sup>Therefore they called out to the\u00a0Lord<\/span>, \u201cO\u00a0Lord<\/span>, let us not perish for this man\u2019s life, and\u00a0lay not on us innocent blood,\u00a0for you, O\u00a0Lord<\/span>, have done as it pleased you.\u201d<\/span> \u00a0<\/sup>So they picked up Jonah and hurled him into the sea,\u00a0and the sea ceased from its raging.<\/span> \u00a0<\/sup>Then the men feared the\u00a0Lord<\/span>\u00a0exceedingly,\u00a0and they offered a sacrifice to the\u00a0Lord<\/span> and made vows.\u00a0 (Jonah 1:11-16)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Jonah is on the run from God.\u00a0 And his running has landed both him and the crew of the ship he rented in a \u201cboatload of trouble\u201d.\u00a0 Sorry, I couldn\u2019t help myself.<\/p>\n
In the middle of the storm that God throws at Jonah, they cast lots to see who is at fault.\u00a0 Jonah is forced to admit that he is to blame, and he suggests that they throw him overboard.\u00a0 Despite this, the crew tries to row to shore.\u00a0 And, only after that effort proves hopeless, do they finally take his advice and pitch him into the water.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s hard to picture quite what this looked like.\u00a0 One ancient rabbinic source speculates that in order to avoid being held accountable for his death, the crew lowered Jonah in up to his knees and the storm subsided.\u00a0 So, they pulled him out.\u00a0 But \u2014 then the storm picked up, so, they lowered him a little deeper in the water, only to discover that the same pattern held true again. According to the rabbis, they tried this a number of times, until they finally gave up and threw Jonah in, sailing off in peace.[1]<\/a><\/p>\n
Since the original storyteller doesn\u2019t even offer these details, one would think that he would have said nothing more about the crew and focus exclusively on Jonah\u2019s fortunes in the water.\u00a0 But he doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 Instead, he goes on to note:<\/p>\n
\u201cThen the men feared the\u00a0Lord\u00a0exceedingly,\u00a0and they offered a sacrifice to the\u00a0Lord\u00a0and made vows.\u201d<\/p>\n
This last sentence, as well as their distress at what Jonah has done, invites us to compare Jonah with his crew.\u00a0 Here are some thoughts that we can explore that are of relevance for us today:<\/p>\n
One: When we fail to hear God, it affects others.<\/em><\/p>\n
We often assume that listening to God is a private affair.\u00a0 In fact, modern American spirituality is primarily a private affair.\u00a0 And many people collect a pastiche of various incompatible religious ideas, superstition, self-help, and a Ouiji Board.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t accountable to a faith community, let alone Scripture or the traditions of the church.<\/p>\n
But for those of us who claim the God of Jonah and Jesus as the Lord of our lives, we know \u2013 or we should know \u2013 that our failure to listen to God has an impact on others.<\/p>\n
Our hesitancy to own our faith, leaves those who are looking for hope without a witness to a way out.\u00a0 Our failure to rear our children in the Christian faith leaves them without direction, and exposes them to the random nonsense that dominates social media.<\/p>\n
We have been particularly bad about this as a denomination and mainline Protestantism has been bad about it in general.\u00a0 Mother Natalie and I have daughters who are worshipping in other churches, because they can\u2019t find an Episcopal Church that will challenge them and support them on their spiritual journeys.\u00a0 One is going to a pretty doctrinaire Presbyterian church, the other is going to a non-denom.<\/p>\n
Do we think that is ideal?\u00a0 No.\u00a0 Both churches have a pretty limited view of the role of women.\u00a0 One offers worship that is a cross between a rock concert and a Ted Talk.\u00a0 But if they can\u2019t find a church that teaches the Christian faith and lifts up the challenge of modern discipleship, alongside the sacraments that the church has celebrated for over two thousand years, then more power to them for insisting on a church that teaches and preaches the faith.<\/p>\n
This is my wife and I \u2013 who is also a priest \u2013 are focused on the spiritual well-being of Good Shepherd and have little time for anything else.\u00a0 The gift that God has given the Episcopal Church is a deep connection with the teaching of the Apostles, the rich resources of the church\u2019s liturgy, and a mission to bring those gifts to bear on the needs of the world.\u00a0 The future of mainline Protestantism will not be a story of denominations, it will be a story of individual churches committed to hearing the call of Christ.\u00a0 The churches that do this will endure.\u00a0 The others won\u2019t.<\/p>\n
But, let me be clear about this, that calling isn\u2019t just ours as clergy, it is ours \u2013 together \u2013 as members of the body of Christ.\u00a0 If our choices are going to have an impact on others, let\u2019s not do what Jonah did.<\/p>\n
A second point Jonah\u2019s story makes is this.\u00a0 We should be aware, that if we aren\u2019t faithful, God will find a way forward and what we will be left with is the grief at having failed to respond.<\/em><\/p>\n
The way that the story is structured is nothing short of brilliant.\u00a0 Jonah runs away from telling the Ninevites that they are courting judgment, because the last thing he wants to happen is for God to deliver them.\u00a0 And, in any event, he doesn\u2019t believe that they are worthy of being forgiven or capable of changing.<\/p>\n
But he finds himself in a boat with people almost exactly like the Ninevites.\u00a0 True, they aren\u2019t blood-thirsty conquerors. But they don\u2019t share Jonah\u2019s faith.\u00a0 They are Gentiles, not Jews.\u00a0 And, yet, they demonstrate their ability to hear and \u2013 because Jonah\u2019s God calms the waters \u2013 they even offer his God sacrifices.<\/p>\n
Now, I don\u2019t think that this is a story about \u201cnoble\u201d pagans.\u00a0 That\u2019s a sixties trope and it would have never occurred to an ancient Jew to make that argument.\u00a0 But what the description of the crew\u2019s behavior does do, is draw Jonah\u2019s behavior into a negative comparison with their willingness to listen.\u00a0 And by doing that, the story underlines Jonah\u2019s failure:<\/p>\n
He doesn\u2019t think that Gentiles will listen.\u00a0 They do.\u00a0 His unwillingness to listen imperils their lives, rather than offering the healing that God is willing to give.<\/p>\n
And, of course, that theme underlines a third one: We should never limit God\u2019s capacity for mercy by assuming that God can\u2019t be or won\u2019t be more merciful than we are.<\/em><\/p>\n
Put more positively, God\u2019s love for us is an invitation to discover just how merciful God can be to others.\u00a0 And if we give ourselves to that discovery it can be \u2013 as it is meant to be \u2013 a lifelong journey.<\/p>\n
Understandably, our tendency is to label people and make categorical judgments about who deserves God\u2019s mercy and who doesn\u2019t.\u00a0 Those categories make it easier to make sense of life.<\/p>\n
If anything, modern life has made that tendency even more pronounced.\u00a0 There was a time when most of the human race lived in small communities.\u00a0 There were absolute limits to the number of people we knew and the ways in which our view of the world was challenged was limited.\u00a0 But, today, we are exposed to billions of people and an endless variety of differences.\u00a0 And in response, we have reintroduced tribalism in a culture that once rejected it.<\/p>\n
Admittedly, this tendency is not utterly original with our generation.\u00a0 It has driven racism and ethnic tensions down through the decades.\u00a0 It bedevils families that have struggled to welcome the children their children fall in love with.\u00a0 And it has restricted the ability of churches to welcome new people.<\/p>\n
Mother Natalie and I know an aging congregation that really struggled to welcome the growing Spanish-speaking community that became a larger and larger portion of their church.\u00a0 And their resistance drove real hostilities in their community the more they made themselves at home in their church.\u00a0 The older members of the community would have told you that they paid the bills and this excused their behavior.\u00a0 But that rather fragile excuse was cover for their own dis-ease with the iconography of the Latin American church.\u00a0 It was, in their words, so gaudy and unsophisticated, it was almost idol worshipping or Catholic.<\/p>\n
One can talk about the cultural differences that were at work and the challenge of understanding the difference between the two communities.\u00a0 But, at root, the real failure was a failure to welcome the loving work of God.<\/p>\n
It is small wonder that the early church drew comparisons between Jonah and Jesus.\u00a0 Jonah\u2019s story is the prophet who won\u2019t hear.\u00a0 The prophet that builds walls, where God moves beyond them.\u00a0 Jesus is the one who listens and whose commitment to carrying God\u2019s mercy into the world, despite the Jonah-like resistance to his word and work.<\/p>\n
May we give ourselves to his vulnerability and may we offer the news of his mercy to a world in need of forgiveness and reconciliation.\u00a0 Lord, make us messengers of your mercy.<\/p>\n
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