Crown Him with Many Crowns
Christ the King Sunday 20 November 2016 St. Paul’s, Kansas City Jeremiah 23:1-6 Canticle 16 Colossians 1:11-20 Luke 23:33-43 Today is Christ the King Sunday, the last Sunday of the seemingly never-ending season of Pentecost, and the Sunday before we switch from “Ordinary Time” green, with frequent use of Pentecostal red to commemorate martyrs to our nation’s gun culture, to a sedate Advent blue, with hopefully no reasons to switch to red. The lessons for today present three very different visions of Christ the King. Three different crowns, if you will. But that’s not the way we humans work. We like to allow Christ to be King over some parts of our lives, but not others. My suggestion to you is that we cannot pick and choose which vision we will follow; we must follow all three. In Paul's Letter to the Colossians, his picture of Christ’s kingship is a spiritual one. He is “the image of the invisible God,” Paul writes, “the firstborn of all creation.” H