Summary
Or maybe you have a story that one of your grandparents has told, or perhaps you've told it over and over and over again, where you're so familiar with the story that you can even recite with the exact inflection of the regular storyteller. And so we move on and we move forward because we're so familiar with it that we don't know what more there is that we can get out of there. And perhaps today, even though we're very familiar with this parable, very familiar with this text that we have out of the gospel of Luke, perhaps we'll find some new truth within it that we haven't found before or that we haven't sought before. And this is where we have the familiarity of the third article of the Apostles Creed where we do profess and confess that we believe in the Holy Spirit, the Holy Catholic or Christian church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins in that we have the radical teaching of Martin Luther that is scripture. But the Holy Spirit has called me by the gospel enlightened me with his gifts sanctified and kept me in the true faith in the same way he calls, gathers and lightens and sanctifies the whole Christian church on earth and keeps it with Jesus Christ in the one true faith. My brothers and sisters, if you have that longing, if you know that you want to be one of those found sheep and you don't know how rejoice because the shepherd has found you.
Video citations
- "Joy of Repentance" — The familiar. We are born with a sense of the familiar, of familiarity. We're born drawn to those voices that we could hear when we were in the womb. We are drawn to faces that we know well. We love…