I'm going on the Road

I've recently been asked to preach outside of my own church! For two Sundays! I guess word gets around about really good (or really cheap) preacher types. I just received the bulletins for the Fowler Presbyterian church and it seems they are a very small community. I love it! I'm going to be in conversation with the temporary pastor to see what type of church it is and what type their particular commmunity's "vocabulary" is.

In other Jesus news, I just finished a book talking about queer theology which speaks greatly about our baptismal identities being our sole identity and all other things that society constructs our identity are non-essential. These non-essential marks of societal identity include such pillars of society as gender, class, sexuality, nationality, political affiliation, etc. What makes this "Jesus news" worthy is that today the RSS feed from BibleGateway.com had the following as the "scripture of the day."

Galatians 3:26-28

²⁶You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, ²⁷for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. ²⁸There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.