Beyond the Routine
Romans 9:30--10:21
Illustration
by John R. Steward

In a Danish village there was a Lutheran Church where each Sunday the people would walk into the church by way of the center aisle. At the front of the church, there was a break between the pews and a blank white wall. Every Sunday, the people of that church would walk down the center aisle to the front of the church and genuflect at the blank wall. A man visiting the church did not understand what the people were doing; when he asked them they said that they had always done this. Upon furth…

CSS Publishing Company, Lectionary Tales For The Pulpit, by John R. Steward