A Soiled Kingdom

That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat beside the sea. Such great crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat there, while the whole crowd stood on the beach. And he told them many things in parables, saying: "Listen! A sower went out to sow. And as he sowed, some seeds fell on the path, and the birds came and ate them up. Other seeds fell on rocky ground, where they did not have much soil, and they sprang up quickly, since they had no depth of soil. But when the sun rose, they were scorched; and since they had no root, they withered away. Other seeds fell on good soil and brought forth grain, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. Let anyone with ears listen!"  Matthew 13:1-9

Pastor Rob will be away this Sunday at a film festival with his daughter Micah, but we are still going to meet for Stone Soup. This week we will be discussing Jesus' parable of the sower and the soils. What does this parable tell us about the Kingdom of God and who is "in" and who is "out"? How does our culture feel about this? How do we feel about it?

As a concrete expression of this parable, we are planning (as weather permits) to make a trip over to the community garden where we will be doing some weeding and mounding more dirt on top of the potatoes in the church's plot. For dinner, we will have a salad bar. We will provide the lettuce, and we ask that each one provide something extra to go in the salad.

See you at 4pm at the Wesley Cottage behind Saluda UMC.