TROUBLING GRACE
Sermon preached at Sage Granada Park United Methodist Church, August 2, 2020. Scripture reference - Romans 9:1-5 and Matthew 14::13-21 Troubling Grace and John Lewis [1] Wade in the water; the Lord’s gonna trouble the water.Wade in the water; w ade in the water, children. This song has its roots in the Underground Railroad, the movement of Harriet Tubman and others to free slaves from the south and send them north. The words flow from the biblical stories of Israel’s fleeing slavery through the Red and crossing the Jordan into the promised land; and also the gospel story that we heard last week when Ratheesh was preaching, about the man waiting for the angel to trouble the water. If he could just get up and touch that water, he could be healed. Recently I talked about grace as something that goes before us and attracts us to God, to salvation and a better life – that’s prevenient grace, and sometimes it works through trouble. This week I want to talk especially about troubling grac