Shalom in Lock Up

from Mosaic UMC Sermons Hosted by Matt Stout

Paul and Silas end up beaten, shackled, and thrown into the darkest cell in Philippi, and they respond by singing. Tonight we dig into Acts 16 through the lens of Martin Buber's I-Thou philosophy, tracing how nearly everyone in this story treats someone else as an object, from the slave girl exploited for profit to the jailer ready to end his own life over a job. Paul's refusal to do the same, even toward the guard who chained him, shows us that shalom is never possible with an object, only with a Thou.

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