Genesis 18.1-15

“Is it possible, I wonder, to say that it is only when you hear the Gospel as a wild and marvelous joke that you really hear it at all? Heard as anything else, the Gospel is the church's thing, the preacher's thing, the lecturer's thing. Heard as a joke—high and unbidden and ringing with laughter—it can only be God's thing...Blessed is he who is not offended that no [one] receives what he deserves but vastly more. Blessed is he who gets the joke, who sees the miracle.” — Frederick Buechner