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<DIV><FONT size=5>and below is a draft of my sermon on John 6:1-21 for Sunday,
July 26, 2009, on the miracle of the loaves and fish.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=5>God willing, a final version will be posted early this week on
our church web site at <A href="http://sjnj.org">http://sjnj.org</A> at the
Worship tab under the Sunday Worship Archive category.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=5>Peace and blessings,</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=5>Joe</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=5></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5>St. John's
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5>61 Broad Street</FONT></SPAN></H2>
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size=5>Elizabeth, New Jersey 07201</FONT></SPAN></B></H2>
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size=5>Proper 12B</FONT></SPAN></B></H2>
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style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
size=5>July 26, 2009</FONT></SPAN></B></H2>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
size=5>DRAFT</FONT></SPAN></B></H2>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5>Sermon by
the Rev. <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:PersonName w:st="on">Joe
Parrish</st1:PersonName></FONT></SPAN></B></H2>
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style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; COLOR: black; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT
size=5>The Holy Gospel according to<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></B></H2>
<H2 style="LINE-HEIGHT: normal; MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5>John 6:1-21</FONT></SPAN></H2>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </H2>
<P style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 40.5pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Feed us, Dear Lord,
along our way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Amen.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 6pt 0in 0pt; tab-stops: 40.5pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
size=5> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>On the Mountain in
modern day Israel where it is traditionally said that Jesus preached the Sermon
on the Mount is the floor of a very ancient church dating from perhaps the early
second century.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Its beautiful
colored mosaic pieces form the picture of the most distinguishing story of
Jesus’ ministry, the five loaves and two fish that Jesus blessed and multiplied
to feed over five thousand starving people nearby that place.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is interesting that neither baptism
nor the Holy Eucharist is pictured, but the miracle that echoed throughout
Israel about the teacher who could turn very little into something very
great.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The picture of the loaves
and fish inspired that little Christian community in its efforts to distinguish
itself from a nearby synagogue and from a not so distant cultic pagan
shrine.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
size=5> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The division of the
loaves and the fish was put in comparable prominence by Christians as Jews put
the Passover.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For the salvation of
the Passover, the Jewish nation always held their god Yahweh to be the greatest
of all gods.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>For the feeding of the
multitude of people, the Christians told that their god, Jesus the Christ, Son
of Yahweh God, was down to earth, interested in the livelihoods of the lowest of
people, and completely sympathetic with their basic needs.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>There perhaps is a parallel between the
Passover and the miracle of the loaves and fish in that both were stories of
miraculous salvation, one from the chasing hoard of the Egyptian soldiers, the
other from the pang of starvation of the multitudes.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Both serve to note the great generosity
and concern of the highest God over God’s people.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
size=5> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>By the first century,
the people of Israel had lived under the heel of the Roman Empire for more than
forty years.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Their daily lives were
cluttered by the demands and taxes of their occupiers.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And in true fact, by the time the
Gospels were written, the Romans had completely destroyed both the entire city
of Jerusalem and all remnants of the Jewish Temple worship and were well into a
purge of all Christians to eradicate them from the face of the earth.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>However, as we well know, neither the
Jews nor the Christians could be quashed by the powers that be; God had
protected them both.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Both sects had
roots that could not be pulled up by any destroying power; both sects had carved
into their religious psyche the importance God placed on their particular
survival.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And both knew their God
was concerned with their safety and welfare.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Theirs was a personally-involved God who
came through when the going got tough and when there was really no other place
to turn.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
size=5> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I can remember as a
child meeting my Chinese missionary great uncle J. T. Williams who had been
imprisoned in a Communist Chinese prison camp in 1948 when the forces of Chiang
Kai-shek were cast out of mainland China.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>His wife barely escaped ahead of him.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They patiently taught me the Chinese
symbol for listen, two ears actually forming a Chinese word.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>They had served as Methodist
missionaries for a number of years and probably had known the famous Chinese
pastor Wong Ming-Dao <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wong_Ming-Dao> whom Jan
and I met in 1980 in Shanghai.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Wong
Ming-Dao sang to us in English, which he did not speak, perfect English versions
of a variety of Methodist hymns that had been taught him by American Methodist
missionaries like my great uncle.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Wong himself had been imprisoned twice by the Chinese Communists, first
with his wife in 1955 and then for 22 years from 1958 to 1980 for his stubborn
resistance to atheistic Communism and its efforts to eradicate Christians from
China.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Finally the Communists
relented after much international Christian pressure and released Wong from
prison.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But he had become an icon
for all Chinese in the east and west of the miraculous intervention of Christ to
save his life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Billy Graham sent a
video team to interview Wong in 1980 just as our cab drove up to his large
apartment complex in Shanghai, and fortunately for us, one member of the team, a
long time friend of ours from Brooklyn, was a Chinese (married to an American
husband) and who also spoke fluent English to translate for us.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The encounter itself was a miraculous
one!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The Chinese prison was unable
to contain the Good News of Jesus the Savior spoken both by Wong and by my uncle
J. T. Williams, my grandmother’s brother.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
size=5> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are very fortunate
today to have a special guest from China, the Rev. Jenny Wong Nam, a former
pastoral classmate of mine during seminary in New York City.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jenny’s mother had become a Christian
after she immigrated to New York City following a miraculous healing she
received when she had been hospitalized for a terminal condition and prayed over
by a Christian pastor.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was
privileged to help Jenny in the Christian burial service for her mother many
years later; her mom is buried in nearby Linden in the Rosehill
Cemetery.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
size=5> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So these miracle
stories are intermingled and intertwined in very amazing ways, as you may be
able to see.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
size=5> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jenny will say a few
words to us a bit later about her ministry in Hong Kong as the principal of a
Christian girl’s school there.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
size=5> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>The feeding of the
five thousand has been recorded in all four Gospels, but in today’s gospel
lesson from John we have a unique small story about the origination of the five
loaves of barley bread and the two fish.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>In this account from the Johannine tradition, a young boy offered his
lunch box of food to Andrew, one of Jesus’ disciples and Peter’s brother.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Andrew comments to Jesus, “But what are
they among so many people?”<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Jesus
does not ever directly answer that question but immediately says for Andrew and
the other disciples to “Make the people sit down.”<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Then Jesus takes the loaves, gives
thanks to his Father in heaven, and suddenly is able to distribute enough food
to satisfy the five thousand, that Philip had acknowledged six month’s wages
would not be enough to feed all of them.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
size=5> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Suppose you have in
your possession five loaves and two fish, or maybe five dollars and two cents,
would you give that to feed five thousand?<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Actually, this very day you will have that opportunity as we gather a
second offering to feed up to eighty people today a free lunch.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our faithfulness, and the faithfulness
of our Deacon Cy Deavours and our Associate Rector Elizabeth Eddy have
transpired to feed for free all the people who come to us today at 2 PM.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But we need your constant support today
and every Sunday, since St. John’s pays for the food for three of the four
Sundays each month.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>So your
generosity will indeed feed a multitude.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>Actually, it takes us a whole year to feed five thousand, but feed we
do.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And we greatly enjoy the
generosity of yet three other Episcopal Churches nearby who have begun taking on
our burden: every last Sunday St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Westfield comes
with the food and their team to do the feeding; and every other month for one
Sunday we have the food and help from Trinity Episcopal Church in Cranford, a
long time helper who also contributes most of our canned goods for our Food
Pantry, and from St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in New Providence who served food
for the first time here on July 12 and who also hopes to return in a couple of
months.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
size=5> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>These seeming small
offerings are the source of a great miracle, as we feed more people here than
any other Episcopal Church in the State of New Jersey.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Of course, our example should be one
which all others strive to emulate and even to exceed.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our unique 2 PM service of Jazz Vespers,
now Karaoke Vespers, each Sunday makes our feedings much more than a simple Soup
Kitchen, and indeed we do not even call our free lunch a “Soup Kitchen”.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Why?<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Because we insist that our patrons at
the meal first join us in offering God holy praise and prayers in the form of
afternoon Vespers.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>This unique
service gives a sense of privacy and human dignity to each person who joins us
for lunchtime.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We do not offer the
food as “just Soup”, we all together offer prayers as an acknowledgement of
God’s continued generosity to us at St. John’s Church.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We are the handmaidens of the Lord; we
serve to show others that God is indeed still with us, that God’s only begotten
Son died that we might be directly related to His heavenly Father, that our
simple offerings will indeed again each and every week be multiplied far beyond
what we could have imagined or expected.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>It is surely God’s grace that saves the starving of our community.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And it is just as surely God’s grace
that supports us even in our poverty as a church community here on Broad
Street.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
size=5> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Allow me to cite
another example of how St. John’s Church has been uniquely blessed in its
leadership.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Our two resolutions on
environmental justice and the humane treatment of animals were both
overwhelmingly endorsed as national priorities of The Episcopal Church at our
recent General Convention in Anaheim, two of the many resolutions that were
offered on environmental issues.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And our Deacon’s Resolution affirming the sacredness of all human beings
regardless of their sexual preferences was resoundly accepted by General
Convention as well.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>We have again
reaffirmed that there are no outcasts in the Episcopal
Church.<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
size=5> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>No other church or
Diocese as far as I know had three of its resolutions accepted as official
church policy by The Episcopal Church, so let us give God all the glory for the
miracles worked in Anaheim!<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
size=5> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>May we
constantly be aware that it is not the smallness of our offerings that is
important, but the faith with which we offer them that is important, for we put
these offerings into the hand of the Mighty Creator, the King of Kings, the Lord
of Lords, the Prince of Peace.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It
is He who has made us and not we ourselves.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>It is the Lord Jesus Christ who
multiplies our offerings, regardless of the smallness of our faith or our
pocketbooks or our mental abilities.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>And it is the Lord who will see us through whatever trials and
tribulations we face in life, both personally and corporately.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Let us trust the
Lord!<o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
size=5> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And let our witness
be: Great is the Lord Jehovah, and Great too is Jehovah’s Only Son Jesus
Christ.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>May we praise them in the
power of the Holy Spirit. <o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><o:p><FONT
size=5> </FONT></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt" class=MsoNormal><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'; FONT-SIZE: 14pt"><FONT size=5><SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Amen and amen.<SPAN
style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><o:p></o:p></FONT></SPAN></P>
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