Proper 6 Year A
Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year A
Description
Twelve Months of Sundays – Year A
Ordinary Time
Proper 6
Genesis 18.1–15
Romans 5.1–8
Matthew 9.35—10.8 [9–23]
Take the gospel reading (the longer version) and lay it, like a template, over the life of the average parish. What do you find?
I know, I know. We don’t live in the first century; we aren’t peasants; Jesus’ mission was unique; the disciples’ mission predated Calvary, Easter and Pentecost; the special and urgent ministry to Israel (10.6, 23) was later transformed, by Jesus himself (Matthew 28.19) into the wider and more long-lasting mission to all the nations.
All this I know. But it remains disturbing that the only point of contact between what Jesus told his twelve followers and what the average church worker does with most of her or his waking hours is that we wander around like sheep among wolves. We know that Jesus told us to be wise as serpents and innocent as doves, but most of us, being after all busy people, find it advisable to specialize...
Taken from Twelve Months of Sundays Year A by N T Wright
Published by SPCK