Community of Believers

I belong to a community of believers

To a rich group of deceivers

You know the saint and sinner bunch.

Come on just take a hunch 

That we know what we’re all doing.

When we gather for an hour.

We don’t and that’s ok

Someone leads us along

Maybe teaches a new song.

Ha and we all get along.

For an hour or so.

Yep these Lutherans are a diverse bunch

and down the road you find

Another less diverse tribe.

One calls themselves open

One has a closed communion.

One can only imagine

What would Jesus do

If he had to decide where to go.

Who had the best pot luck?

Who needed the the most help?

One’s faith says he’s there to all

Because they hit the quorum

Three in his name and all.

Makes a community seem small.

Could be a street corner to hit that.

And you he’s probably there too

Because he said he would.

And we take him for his word

Because we’re a community of believers.

Sometimes known as deceivers.

by Dave Schipper (c) 2019 Rose Riversongs