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As followers of Jesus we’re students: continually learning and growing. What we’re learning is not information but a way of living, and the only way to learn it is in community. Christ’s living presence leads us, in our relationships.
Bearing the cross doesn’t mean being miserable; it means being willing to suffer for the sake of love and justice. Being born of love, it makes us joyful, not miserable, and it joins us with Jesus.
The Scripture lessons this week reminds us of the importance of identity in following Jesus. Together as the body of Christ, we not only discern who Jesus is, but who we are being shaped to be through attending the “training camp” of the Church.
God speaks to us through people outside our privilege. Following Jesus’ model of openness, we allow them to expand our awareness- and miracles happen.
Guest preacher Sam Johnson reflects on how we might deal with our various kinds of fear in light of the Gospel.
Like Jacob wrestling with the angel, we have to be brought to the limit of our powers to know and trust God’s. when we do, there is always deep blessing.
Questions arising from the Gospel text: where is God’s grace hidden in your life and the life of the church?
What does it mean that we are “children of God?” Maybe that we are born of God’s love, dependent on God, full of wonder. Maybe that we are just beginning, always growing. Maybe it means we are all siblings, and we belong to each other. I wonder…