Make Your List - The Rev. Philip DeVaul

Sermons from the Episcopal Church of the Redeemer

And we can choose not to allow God to influence our beliefs. We can believe what we already believed and then approach the altar of God and hope to leave unchanged. By saying, these things are the things that God cares about and these are our concerns. We can walk into this space and leave our cares and troubles for the world out there and come in here and just talk about our personal feelings or piety and talk about things like faith and hope and grace and churchy words. And you can come up to this altar and take bread from some man in a dress and then you can go back out into the world and forget about all this stuff and leave it here and not allow this to influence that and not allow that to influence this. Which leads me to the question. What part of your life does not belong to God? What part of your life does God not care about? I encourage you today when you go home, take out a piece of paper and a pen and make a list. Or pull your phone out, grab your little notepad on your phone and go ahead and make a list of the things in your life that God doesn't care about.