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About Last Sunday: Souls In Exile
The Purpose of “About Last Sunday”
Occasionally, I reassess Sunday’s sermon message to determine if my capacity for learning and understanding is still present the following day or two. I began this process as a way to remember the outpouring of God’s word received on Sunday, which is often forgotten about by Monday morning. The human mind works this way to focus on the current and more pressing matters of a monotonous work-centric society. Were we hunters and gatherers still, our focus, come Monday, would be on how many handfuls of whatever crops we would have to work on. Or, depending on our geography, whether we would hunt our food or fend off a larger competing predator for the food. But here we are, in a capitalist corporate dystopia, navigating the world as Christians, attempting and often forgetting the life-transforming message we receive on Sunday, no less than 24 hours after hearing it, to focus on the mundane responsibility of making capital for making capital’s sake.
Therefore, it is my prerogative, through music or literature, to remember sermons that have a greater and lasting impact on me. This is what “About Last Sunday” write-ups are all about.
The Message
And this Sunday, Minister Rohan Samuels of Freedom Life Church titled his message “Scandalous Proximity.” In…
