Truth In Our Stories

The following is an excerpt from this weeks sermon Fish stories:

Both of the stories Jonah and the Call of the Disciples in Mark, make us question their validity, because they run against what we think things out to be like. In Jonah’s case our reaction is essentially, “Come on how many times does God have to come after you before you accept God’s calling,” and yet we also ask after all is said and done, "Jonah, what’s your problem man? Mission accomplished.” Yet in the same vein when we read in Mark of the Disciples answering the call, we think, it can’t be that simple, how could anyone blindly follow that quickly and leave everything and everyone else behind with no questions asked.

The church today, I believe embodies this to a degree. It is probably time we asked ourselves this question: Are we truly serving and calling people to the kingdom of God, or are we telling fish stories to ourselves over and over again, so much so, that we have begun to accept them as the whole truth instead of an exaggeration derived from the truth?