Drew Downs

Make a New Normal

The Way

  • 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.

  • Jesus’s Temptation in the Wilderness isn’t just a story of the power of evil or Jesus’s personal experience of it, but the very corruptive nature of power.

  • The place of baptism for Christians is not so supposed to be seen as an entrance to a club, but an invitation to a way of being.

  • Jesus’s talk about The Way is a conflicting experience for modern Christians. Because the concept confuses us.

  • This week, we get a familiar example of the challenge of literalism. How we struggle to see the answer is in front of us.

  • It’s funny that this one choice we make may be the single biggest divider of them all. Is Jesus the only way to God? Well, watch your step. Most of our questions about the nature of God, Jesus, and their relationship exist in multiple dimensions of analysis. Like in seminary, when I would sit in…