What Can I Do?
A Sermon by the Rev. Dr. Thane P. Glenn
Lessons: Luke 10:25-28 and 3:8-14; True Christian Religion 422
W
ould it make a difference if you were never born? It’s a startling question.
Would it make any difference if you had never been born?
Perhaps you’ve had the experience of walking in Manhattan or London
at a busy midday intersection; perhaps you’ve been overwhelmed by the
sheer population of the crowd around you – people of so many different
backgrounds crossing paths, so many different interests, different beliefs –
more or less completely indifferent to one another. If you’re like me, maybe
you’ve had the thought: If I weren’t here, if there were one fewer person in this
crowd, would it have any impact at all? Would it have even the least impact? It’s
estimated that there are 7.4 billion people in the world. Do I – do we – really
make any difference?
Last summer 49 people were killed in a shooting in Orlando, Flori