Learning from Gordon Cosby
June 2, 2013
Texts:
Luke 5: 1-11
1 Cor. 1: 25-31
My entry into the Church of the Saviour community was in 2005, though the seed was planted sometime in the late 90’s and happened this way. At that time my family and I were attenders of Adelphi Friends Meeting, and one of the things I value about the unprogrammed worship of Quakers is that if—a very big ‘if’--if a message arises out of the silence and is the prompting of the Holy Spirit, it can be a very powerful experience. One day during worship a message was given by someone who said she had been to a church in Washington, D.C., and had heard someone preaching who was more authentic in his Christian witness than anyone she had heard preach before,and whose name was Gordon Cosby. Although I am poor at remembering names, this name I would remember. Some years later, in search of a church with a more overtly Christian expression, I decided to check out Gordon Cosby’s preaching at the ecumenical service on 2025 Massachusetts Ave.