The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
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The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened
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📖 Scripture:
Numbers 11:4–17
1 Corinthians 11:20–22
🎭 Featured Musical:
Merrily We Roll Along by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth
🧵 Description:
This musical sermon wrestles with nostalgia, resistance to change, and the cost of transformation — in the wilderness, at the communion table, and on the Broadway stage.
Drawing from Merrily We Roll Along’s bittersweet backwards journey and the lectionary texts for a hungry and fragmented people, I explore what it means to lead together, to share what we have, and to believe in a future we cannot yet see.
Through stories of failure and longing — in Moses, in Paul’s church, and in Sondheim’s doomed collaboration — we ask:
“What happens when yesterday is done, but the new world hasn’t arrived yet?”
And more importantly:
“What might the Spirit still make of us — even now?”
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