Jesus visits our church

It is as if Christ wandered into our church on Sunday in company with some curious street people, wondering what all the fuss was about. "Is that ME they are going on about?" he wonders. He looks around and sees the people ill equipped to ascend the smoke-shrouded slopes of Mt. Siniai, what with the earth's crust shaking and cracking under their feet, and the wild Law-Giver spitting out commandments like moulton pebbles from an outraged volcano. "They will never manage this without some serious help," Jesus observes, "for one thing, they didn't bring the right kind of shoes."

And so he volunteers as a tour-guide, a Sherpa, an expert on volcanos who will take them to the fiery rim where they might safely peer over and view the face of God.