Father Snort

Brad Sullivan St. Mark’s, Bay City May 29, 2016 Proper 4, Year C Luke 7:1-10 “That’s Now How the Force Works!” The faith in Jesus of the centurion in today’s Gospel reading was absolute and his faith reminds me of the faith of another soldier, a man named Finn, former Storm Trooper turned good guy in the latest Star Wars movie. Finn’s faith was not in Jesus but in the Force; for those who aren’t familiar with the films, the Force is a mystical, well “force” which some people in particular can partner with to do extraordinary things. They call it using the Force, but there are only a very few people who can use the Force, and they must be trained in order to do so. Finn was not one these people, in fact, he knew almost nothing about the Force, but he had heard about it, and he believed in it. He had been a soldier, a Storm Trooper for the evil First Order which was trying to subject the ent