Thursday, July 23, 2015

Go fishing!

Like many pastors I am always saving interesting newspaper and magazine articles for later use in sermons, Bible studies and other communication.  Earlier this week I stumbled upon something I had forgotten all about.  What I am about to share came from the little devotional, "Our Daily Bread, March - May 1996).  It sounds like a real conversation.  Here is goes...

Philip Melancthon, the great Reformation theologian, once said to his friend, Martin Luther, "This day you and I will discuss the governance of the universe."  What Luther said in response was unexpected: "This day you and I will go fishing and leave the governance of the universe to God."