Comments on: Sermon – 5 October 2008

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 09:16:48 +0000

As I’ve thought about the telephone incident further, it has come back to me that the trajectory of the telephone was accompanied by the words, “Get out, go on, get out!”

However, this did not take place during a seminar but after a seminar.

I remain convinced that behind the flying telephone lay a certain affection. The landing of the telephone was certainly received with respect. It was flung by one of several people at St Mary’s who helped me to become who I am and for whose challenging wisdom I will always be grateful.

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 21:27:08 +0000

I don’t remember being asked to leave a seminar in St Mary’s though it is possible that happened. It does not sound like the kind of thing I would have forgotten.

The story of the telephone flying in my direction though is certainly gospel. I took it at the time as a sign of endearment.

I was asked to leave TISEC, but I don’t think that counts as it was before I had commenced the course. It was an appropriate start to a troubled relationship.

By: Zebadee

Zebadee — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:15:37 +0000

There was a story that was told @ St Marys about you being asked to leave a seminar and also had a telephone hurled in your direction.

Is this true or is it just one of the myths that St Marys will be telling at the 600 years celebrations of it’s opening?

By: traceymac

traceymac — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:29:24 +0000

Wow. After all that’s happened… I’m loved. I’m blessed. And nothing can ever take that away. Kind of puts a bit of a lump in my throat when i think about it. Thanks for saying this, and for the opportunity to hear it and read it again and again… which is what i’ve been doing the last couple of days.

By: ryan

ryan — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:28:59 +0000

That was lovely. And I’m glad that, in my experience, SEC Churches are indeed difficult to get thrown out of .

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 19:41:54 +0000

Not thrown out of anywhere since sunday-school? God knows it’s not for lack of trying, Kelvin.

Surely the requisite support group is simply the SEC? (or perhaps St Mary’s).

By: Mary-Cate

Mary-Cate — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:16:37 +0000

Sunday school–for part of my childhood–was taught by Anglican nuns. They were pretty savvy (and scary!) and knew that the punishment lay not in being kicked out but rather in being made to stay. Mind you, they always had really neat things in their pockets. Oh and they had a really great Easter egg hunt at the convent when you could ‘accidentally’ go into all sorts of intriguing rooms that were normally off bounds

By: Aaron Orear

Aaron Orear — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:49:58 +0000

I was expelled from Sunday School (actually held on a Wednesday night, but inexplicably still called Sunday School) for calling the teacher a dirtball.

Well, that’s what my classmates like to say happened. What actually happened was that I asked about evolution vs. the literal creation story of Adam formed from the earth. Objecting to perceived simian ancestry, the teacher said, “So you’re calling me a monkey?” To which I replied, “Well, you called me a dirtball.”

I went out in a blaze of glory.

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:39:15 +0000

I read Jesus’s commandment as not two but three-fold. Love God, love neighbour, love self.

By: kelvin

kelvin — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 16:16:05 +0000

Rosemary. I feel that there should be a support group for people like us.

The only other choice is to wear that expulsion as a badge of honour.