The Clothing Catastrophe: A Sermon about God, Belonging, and 1001 New Worshipping Communities
[ Th e title of the sermon was intentional ly chosen to look like a Big Bang Theory episo de title.] The Clothing Catastrophe Preached at Northminster Presbyterian Church on February 7, 2016 Text: Matthew 21:45 - 22:15 Well, one thing to learn from this story is this: If you receive a wedding invitation, you should NOT kidnap, torture, and straight-up murder the mail man. Such conduct is… frowned upon. I think there's more to find in this text, but you gotta start somewhere. Did you ever wonder, though, why these people would react so violently to an invitation to a lavish feast? Last summer, I got to attend a conference of something called 1001 New Worshipping Communities . (The only way you would not already know that is if we hadn’t spoken much in the last six months.) 1001 is a movement in the Presbyterian church to try to find ways to reach outsiders, outliers, and misfits, and bring them into, well, new worshipping communities. 1001 is not a cookbook