By The Rev. Brandi Wolf Drake
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Sermon Text: John 20:30-31, 21:1-14
Sermon Theme
John 21 can be considered an epilogue to the gospel. In it, the Word of God incarnate, now resurrected, encounters the disciples after all the excitement. What does he have for them?
Questions for Us
- Where, in your life, are you too busy to notice what God might be showing you? Are you looking for the next ‘big’ spiritual thing, and missing the life-changing thing right in front of you?
- In his book Street Wisdom, Father Albert Holtz talks about the tension we have in our lives between mastery and intimacy. “The dynamic interplay of intimacy and mastery is the main point of the Bible. God, who is passionately in love with the people of the Covenant, keeps inviting them to risk everything and rely on Yahweh alone, but the Chosen People keep refusing the invitation to divine intimacy, and look for control and security instead, in idols, armies, and alliances.” (page 2) How is your comfort-level being changed as you turn away from the need to control religious experience and rely on intimacy with Christ?
