The new lighthouse became a place to meet regularly for fellowship, for committee meetings, and for special training sessions about their mission, but few went out to the drowning people. The drowning people were no longer welcomed in that new lighthouse. So another life-saving lighthouse was started further down the coast. History continued to repeat itself. If we were to visit this coast today, we would find a number of adequate meeting places with ample parking and plush carpeting.
Shipwrecks still happen, but most people drown.
That story was written by Thomas Wedel almost 50 years ago. Today we have modern radios and Loran for ships to communicate. But I'm guessing that story was about more than lighthouses. Today we hear in the gospel that Jesus was walking by the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Peter and Andrew, casting a net into the sea for they were fishermen. They could not resist.