Just One Thing

In the 1991 comedy City Slickers, Mitch (Billy Crystal) asks Curly (Jack Palance), in a moment of vulnerability, about the secret…the secret of life. “One thing,” Curly says, “just one thing. You stick to that and everything don’t mean nothin’”

Well, Curly doesn’t say it exactly that way, but that’s the gist (for you church history buffs, he uses Martin Luther’s favorite scatalogical word).

That, however, is not the point. Just One Thing is.

Because, the confession and practice of ‘just one thing’ is exactly what St. Paul told the Corinthian church in 1 Corinthians 12 was the “secret” to a healthy and robust spiritual life and community.

See you Sunday,

Steve+