Theme: You were made to dance on the divine dance floor. Can you hear the divine music? This sermon is a call for Cha-Cha-Cha Christians.
Exegesis
On this Transfiguration Sunday the gospel lesson (Matthew 17:1-9) describes the event itself—-the mountaintop, the cloud, the disciples as witnesses, the presence of the prophets, the heavenly voice. The epistle text, however, demonstrates how the transfiguration event was understood and used by the first generation of Christian churches.
The epistle of 2 Peter focused on fighting those pooh-poohing the parousia—-the impending return of Jesus in all his power and glory on “the day of the Lord” and the judgments that would follow. The nay-sayers declared this threat of a future comeuppance to be a contrived scenario, devised in order to contr…