Faith
The search for meaning, purpose, and relationship. Our need for love compels us to seek it out, and when we find it, share it.
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In the Farewell Discourse, Jesus speaks to his followers about leaving, about what is coming, and about the trust that’s involved.
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What Jesus tells his disciples is the certainty they seek is in the keeping of his commandments, which should be far more evident to us than it is.
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In this encounter with the disciples, Jesus names his confidence in the disciples, in what they know. And they’re like, you can’t be serious.
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Some treat certainty as a pre-condition for belief, rather than something that comes through the process of coming to believe.
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Jesus as shepherd is such a traditional image that its power to evoke is often granted easily. Is our own sense of place too easily granted?
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As much as the church loves to speak of sheep and shepherds, it remains an image that both helps and hinders because many won’t listen.