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Introduction- ME to WE
Good Morning, I love this passage where we actually get to talk about incredible women in the Gospel.
5 verses and the last verse is the most intriguing
We find out Mary had a choice?
What were her other choices.
She chose the one necessary thing- what is that one essential thing?
Jesus leaves us hanging as he often does because his ministry was not about giving us more knowledge, more facts but about showing us the way of faith formation.
A daily walk, a daily grind of what it means to really live a full life, a fulfilled life.
Less information and more formation.
Less certainty more faith through transformation.
Not a one time transaction to escape hell and await a distant heaven.
But a way of living with glimpses of heaven along the way.
Years ago, I was talking to an older man in the church, and I forgot what the topic was but it was something about failing to do something he should of done and his regret.
But what he said next, I will never forget, when my doing catches up with my knowing, I will be perfect.
Why don’t we do all the things we know?
It seems we are consumed with ourselves, rather than seeking something beyond ourselves- miss opportunities to connect with one another and serve one another.
Most of us know the right thing, but we don’t do it.
Why?
What are we missing?
There is something about our being (who we are) that seamlessly connects with our doing (what we do).
Do we live our life role playing or are we really living?
Because when I grew up in the deep south, conservative, fundamental, Bible Belt.
We had 4 roles.
We are all about Faith, Family, Food, Football.
Sometimes the last two we got out of order.
If you dare have a wedding in the Fall, you arrange it by the college football schedule.
In today’s readings, we learn about hospitality and not the importance of the roles we play but the relationships.
The intimacy of belonging to one another.
Everybody belongs, everything is connected.
Radical Hospitality never meets a stranger but welcomes a new neighbor.
Today’s readings remind us to ask the question
What are we seeking?
What are we willing to do?
How do we live out our daily life in the presence of doing.
Are we role playing or are we real living?
GOD_————=====
(Chapter 10)
Now as they went on their way, he entered a certain village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home.
Martha was playing the right traditional role.
She was doing what culture expected.
She was the hostess with the mostest.
She welcomed Jesus, great role of hospitality.
Greeting her guests.
Also Martha wasn’t taken frozen pizza out and heating it up.
She was cooking from scratch.
I mean real scratch.
She didn’t have the luxury to go down to the local Whole Paycheck or Granola Joes and get all her food from the Paleo Diet Section.
Hard Work to cook and clean up afterwards (the part I hate about cooking!)
The New Revised Standard Version (Jesus Visits Martha and Mary)
She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was saying.
Mary was in the wrong, she was in the wrong room.
Women mostly were confined to the kitchen and bedroom.
And Mary for whatever reason, chose a different way.
She was not only at the feet of Jesus, she was not distracted, actively listening.
She was not there because of a ritual but she was seeking a relationship.
She was not only present she was fully present.
She was not worried about helping Martha.
She was giving her presence to Jesus.
She was not distracted.
Note Acts 22:3 sitting at the feet of Jesus The only other time this verse is used is with Paul being a disciple of Jesus.
Women don’t even get the right to vote to be full citizen until over 1900 years later.
She was not playing her role but following a new way to really live!
Mary was getting our of her lane, not following her tradition but following another source.
jesus could of said feminist theology doesn’t start until the 20th century go back into the kitchen no he let her stay.
But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him and asked, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by myself?
Tell her then to help me.”
Noticing Martha is appealing to authority, calls Jesus Lord Rabbi, Master, and
she is only making this appeal because she believes in her own authority and own righteousness, and demands Jesus to tell that sister you gave me to help me!
She is in the right and Mary is in the wrong.
Martha would not ask Jesus the question in front of Mary and all the guests, breaking social protocol because she knew how he would answer.
Rebuking Mary!
Martha is acting out and telling Jesus how I pray to Jesus!
I can easily relate to Martha.
You tell that woman you gave me, my sister, to start behaving right.
that is how I pray, you tell that woman you gave me, my beloved wife Rocio, to start thinking right, that only happens only one or twice a day, I mean a year!
41 But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are worried and distracted by many things;
Martha is appealing to authority, her own authority, Jesus replies with an appeal to our humanity.
What does Jesus say?
Martha, Martha you are anxious and troubled about many things- Well, isn’t Jesus defining the human condition.
Our worrying can get out of balance, we live in fear over love.
we live without hope, without faith.
Martha was consumed with staying in her lane, doing what was expected of her role, her gender role.
Mary needs to stay in her lane!
stay in her place
And Jesus is asking the better question?
Who made up the lanes?
Who is drawing these boundaries?
Jesus was letting Martha know you are being human and I am going to teach and show you a better way to be fully human by seeking and seeing the divine in me and all humanity.
Notice Jesus is not condemning but convicting Martha, he is not condemning us either, because we can easily relate to Martha-
My favorite reply of Jesus- I am willing- The divine is always seeking and willing to show us a better way!
The New Revised Standard Version (Jesus Visits Martha and Mary)
there is need of only one thing.
Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.”
Few things are necessary, one thing, what is the one thing, Mary has chosen the better way.
What way is that?
There are so many things we think are necessary.
We have to have this or we have to be this?
Role playing- when we get stuck in living a life of compare and contrast with creation.
We don’t want to live in the moment- because we want to control it- be comfortable safe, secure,
but we are called to surrender, to give up control
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