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We have been ploughing through some of the most difficult gospel passages in the lectionary (or at least it seems like it) over past weeks, or even months. The disciples never get it right. People leaving Jesus. Everyone is saying it is too hard. The only one’s who do any good are those who are blind, stony cold broke, or in some other way totally marginalised (you can’t just put yourself there … not that I would want to).
So here is my dumb question: If no one understood Jesus, and when they did they realised they could not live the sort of life Jesus demanded, why did anyone keep following him?
When I’ve preached over past weeks, if I preach to a traditional group, at the end of the service they shake my hand and say, “Nice service!” and I know they have been thinking about lunch. When I preach to a more engaged group quite a few of them get defensive … and I’m trying to duck for cover behind the text itself (sort of, “I didn’t write this stuff!”)
Seriously, why did they keep following him?
Okay, dumb question but if someone has a view on this I’m all ears (well eyes maybe).
Tom
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'Comfort the afflicted and afflict the comfortable'. I prefer to die living than to live dying! "War is a poor chisel with which to carve out the future." - Martin Luther King, Jr
Psalm 5: 11 "But let all who take refuge in you be glad; let them ever sing for joy. Spread your protection over them, that those who love your name may rejoice in you. "
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