Nobody Knows Your Name

Sermon Series: Always Hoped That I’d Be an Apostle (Week 5)

Description:

This week, we tell the stories of nameless men, forgotten women, and the sacred power of being seen. From Saul’s transformation to Thecla’s bold discipleship… from Frank Curtis in Iola, Kansas to a mummified outlaw rediscovered on a California pier — we follow the threads of hidden identities, lost authorship, and queer midrash.

Was Luke/Acts written by a woman? Could Thecla — a transgressor of gender roles, a healer, a disciple — be the author we’ve forgotten to name?

This is a sermon about choosing Jesus, even when the world doesn’t choose you. About claiming your place in the story. And about what might happen when the scales fall from our eyes, too.

Scriptures:

* Acts 9:1–31

* 2 Corinthians 11:4–12a

* The Acts of Paul and Thecla 40–42 (trans. Melissa Harl Sellew)

Featured Musical Reference:

Dead Outlaw: A New Musical by David Yazbek, Erik Della Penna, and Itamar Moses

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