How to be a Mouthpiece for Truth and Justice is the sermon theme for week 7 of Fruitfulness on the Frontline with Rev. Graham Crawford –
In today’s lesson on how to be fruitful on the frontline we come to a story which we all know so well.
Many of us have sat in the pew and had fingers pointed at us by ministers acting the part of the prophet, Nathan, as they pronounced: “You are the Man.”
Indeed, every commentary I looked at considered this from the standpoint of preaching on the wages of sin.
However, today I want to look at the passage from 2nd Samuel in a very different way.
Instead of me acting the part of Nathan and pointing the finger at you, I am asking how we all can be Nathans, pointing the finger at injustice in the world around us. [Read more…]