The Sermon That Needed to Be Preached
One of the most powerful sermons delivered in recent times was almost never preached. Our dear friend John Harrison was just on Pastor Nar’s Losing My Religion podcast to teach us a thing or two about touching the untouchable.
I can’t speak for the scientific or medical communities, but we in the general public weren’t too sure of how easy it was, or how many ways there were, to “catch” AIDS. It sounds kind of stupid now, but we were afraid to one degree or another of salad bars, toilet seats, door handles… and when we found out this person was coming to the studio, some of us got nervous. One of our jobs, you see, was to put a lavalier microphone on the guest, which meant, by design, close contact — touching. This person was surrounded by AIDS every day. What if we could “catch” AIDS by miking her?
Listen to the podcast and read the full text of the sermon on John’s blog.
