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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
If Jesus Came to Your House
Genesis 18:1-15; Luke 10:38-42
It doesn't take many pre-wedding counseling sessions for ministers to realize that, no matter how much we talk about marriage, the almost bride and groom are always thinking wedding.
Even so, I use most of our 3 or 4 meetings before the rehearsal to brief with them on the predictable pressure points of married life.
Instead of imposing a curriculum or strict agenda, I ask them to do a simple exercise between our first and second meetings.
"Visualize," I say, "the various rooms of the home you'll share as husband and wife. Each one has powerful symbolic value about some of life's big questions about values, priorities, relationships."
So, the bedroom speaks of intimacy and family planning.
The bathroom's where you take care of your physical grooming and well-being.
The kitchen conjures up chores and your food preferences and values.
The living room welcomes friends and relatives into your life together and challenges your openness to relationships beyond your selves.
And then there's the closet, a place for privacy and maybe even secrets. Can you live with secrets?
Which reminds me... The house Joanne and I live in sometimes gets kind of cluttered. When guests are coming, our hospitality default is simply to gather up the mess, stash it in our bedroom, and make sure nobody gets anywhere near that shut door for the duration! Talk about your private little secrets.
Now, what if you knew that the next visitor to your home would be Jesus? Not just to your cute little craftsman bungalow. But in your metaphorical house, the architectural icon of your whole life.
How would you answer his knock at your door?
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posted by Jack Buckley at
7:03 PM
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