It must come as something of a shock to many of these
people to realize that over the last yen years the bulk of his time has been spent in a ministry
whose chief work is preaching,
baptizing, celebrating the Eucharist, teaching, counseling the troubled, comforting the sick and bereaved.
Even John the Baptist seems to have forgotten all that happened at Jesus» baptism, including his own words of testimony that the
person he
baptized was far greater than he, one
whose sandals he was not worthy to unloose.