Palm Sunday - How It Really Unfolds in the Church Today?

The following is a note from my dear friend Ruth Channels. I asked and she agreed to allow me to use this in the blog as I thought it worthy of sharing with all of you.

"Greetings. While reading the Palm Sunday account in preparation for teaching SS last weekend, I had a really fun insight. It seems to me that on both sides, the arrival of a new minister is a Palm Sunday experience. He/she is to be the savior - bring in young people, grow the giving, get rid of... (fill in the blank). Eventually, the minister does something that over turns the money changers' tables - perhaps changing the order of worship or removing an American flag? It may take years or months or weeks, but in my own experience and that shared by others, eventually the Holy Week events play themselves out. You can imagine that Paul and I had great fun discussing this. However, as the time has passed, I think that some acknowledgement of this trap could help the process greatly." Ruth