Saint Athanasius Lutheran Church

Most of the people we hear about in the readings today... we don't know who they are. They're nameless men. In the reading from Titus, of course we hear Titus' name, and Paul is writing to him, but we don't know much about this Titus. It's interesting, isn't it? And it teaches us something. That it's not about the preacher, it's about what is preached. Or at least, it should be. When it's not, when the preacher becomes the focus, that's when things go wrong. The pastor is just a mouth, and hands. A mouth and hands put here by God to preach. To speak, to give. That here, everything be about Christ.