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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The sermon on the plains offers a poignant opportunity to dig into why we struggle with seeing ourself in scripture.
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The demand for in-person only gathering is theologically-shallow. It is also shallow in practice and tradition.
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Jesus almost breaks their nets and sinks their boats. We refuse to recognize that great abundance is not objectively good.
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Jesus’s return home goes exactly as he expects. Which is to say, the people’s reactionary response is quite predictable.
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In reading of Jesus’s visit to the synagogue, we are given a mirror to hold up to ourselves and see what we’d rather not.
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Gospel, like “good news” is loaded. And WE don’t always like it. But the question was never whether we like it.