Ship of Fools

Our sermon series, Ship of Fools…..begins this Sunday and considers what it might mean to be, as Paul says, “fools for Christ.” Jesus invited his friends into moments of trust that would seem absurd, foolish, even mad, until they weren’t. David danced, Isaiah went naked, Zacchaeus climbed a tree (and gave his money away). Join us as we push out into the deep with the fools that were anything but…

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Fools as the book of Proverbs lay out, stay in the shallow end, pursuing their own vapid decline.

Fools for Christ, however, they go into the deep end, eschewing reputation for the voice of Jesus who calls them into the absurd holiness of God.

So, let’s go into the deep, let’s board this ship of fools.

Our series, Ship of Fools, is exploring Paul’s language that we are “Fools for Christ” and that the “Foolishness of God is greater than the wisdom of man.” Meaning, Obedience to God that looks foolish to the world is part of God’s wisdom. The cross, the ultimate fools end, is the very story of salvation as God meets each of us in our darkness, to forgive and free.

Now, fools for Christ are not just weird for the sake of being eccentric. Our goal here is not to celebrate oddity and gawk at the strange behaviours of holy people as something to emulate. We are not a ship of attention seekers, we’re a ship of fools, a ship of people who are willing to lose their reputation out of a costly obedience to God. That might very well get attention, but it’s faithfulness to God, irregardless of outcome that is the focus.

So the foolishness of Christ is perhaps the precise opposite of irrational and irresponsible. Following Jesus, even if we look like fools, is no fools errand. It is the very heart of wisdom. Hoarding what you have when Jesus gave it to you to use? That’s foolish.

Taking your great gifts and skills and burying them, that’s irrational and irresponsible. Giving them back to God in great trust that Jesus is Lord of all and is true to His word? That’s beyond wise, and the most sure investment of our time and energies. But what we do with our gifts might surprise.