The Best Worst Thing That Ever Could Have Happened

📖 Scripture:

Numbers 11:4–17

1 Corinthians 11:20–22

🎭 Featured Musical:

Merrily We Roll Along by Stephen Sondheim and George Furth

🧵 Description:

This musical sermon wrestles with nostalgia, resistance to change, and the cost of transformation — in the wilderness, at the communion table, and on the Broadway stage.

Drawing from Merrily We Roll Along’s bittersweet backwards journey and the lectionary texts for a hungry and fragmented people, I explore what it means to lead together, to share what we have, and to believe in a future we cannot yet see.

Through stories of failure and longing — in Moses, in Paul’s church, and in Sondheim’s doomed collaboration — we ask:

“What happens when yesterday is done, but the new world hasn’t arrived yet?”

And more importantly:

“What might the Spirit still make of us — even now?”