discipleship
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It isn’t easy to follow Jesus. He pushes his followers away when they are focused on their own stuff. How do we embrace the challenge?
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The ongoing themes in John 6 are easy to miss when we focus on the image Jesus offers of the bread of life. Here’s what we might miss.
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With following Jesus, the point is not to understand or to win, but to understand Jesus. To get what he is about and wants for us.
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In the pattern Jesus invites us into: work, rest, move: we get to see a life of opportunity, learning, growing, and ultimately becoming more alive.
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In their desire to keep things as they are, the townspeople struggle with the opportunity Jesus offers them: to make a new normal.
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The gap in this week’s lectionary tells the story of the healing of the Demoniac. But that isn’t the part that astounds us.