Sin Boldly

Friday October 29th, Luke 18: 13"But the tax collector stood at a distance. He would not even look up to heaven, but beat his breast and said, 'God, have mercy on me, a sinner.' I have a beer mug from www.oldlutheran.com that says, “Sin Boldly Lager.” It doesn’t make the beer taste any better but I still like using it. Luther said we are at the same time saint and sinner. Saint by the blood of Christ and sinner by our own doing. As saints we are forgiven sinners called to answer the question, “now that you don’t have to do anything, what are you going to do?” Most of us don’t answer the question and thereby answer it by saying, “we are going to par—tay!!!!! The answer God was looking for was “we are going to forgive others and thereby build a better world!!!!” The best thing the tax collector had to offer was the honesty of who he was. It would be our best response also.