John 14:1-14
Thomas and Philip, the questioners of what Jesus means. This isn't the onky spot where Thomas questions Jesus. Questioning Jesus is not looked at as unbelief or doubt, it is a way to understand and become a disciple.
I don't know when or where it became unfasionable to not question as a Christian. Why do we feel we have to have it all figured out? In buddhism the way is filled with questions for the teacher. It is the only way to attain to a higher level of compassion. When we cut out the question we leave out leaarning and isn't that what we are to do as followers of the way. Questions also lead us to the door of change, maybe it's because this mystery is too big we say questions aren't allowed.
Thomas' question today leads us logically to the question of how do we unknow? How do wd dare to ask questions when all our life we have been told everything is figured out? This is not the way though. Following the way means daring to ask the questions.
Right now we have come to a good spot, it opens us to the questions once again, if we dare to ask them. Now that we have spent two months online at virtual church, what does church look like for us now? What is important, what isn't, do we need the whole set of things we did before or can we find new ways to be church? They're scary questions because we've never done it this way before. Neither had the disciples. The church in Acts can be such an example to us, it had to struggle with becoming something out of what had been Judiasm. It was change full blown, led by the Spirit.
What would it be to be that church when we start to think of coming back. The church which is led by the Spirit to question. The church that is led by the Spirit to unknow everything from before and make new. The church led by the Spirit to question, what would that church be? What could that church become?
Are your ready to ask the hard questions? Are you ready to unknow? Are you ready to be an Easter people who have come out on the other side of death and know all the questioning gives life? New life, resurrected life because we have changed from this and there is no going back, so walk forward.
It makes me think of the song from Rodgers and Hammerstien's Carousel, the snatches I remember are walking on through the storm, your head held high, and the point is you will never walk alone. We don't walk alone, we walk by the questions of faith.
Thomas and Philip, the questioners of what Jesus means. This isn't the onky spot where Thomas questions Jesus. Questioning Jesus is not looked at as unbelief or doubt, it is a way to understand and become a disciple.
I don't know when or where it became unfasionable to not question as a Christian. Why do we feel we have to have it all figured out? In buddhism the way is filled with questions for the teacher. It is the only way to attain to a higher level of compassion. When we cut out the question we leave out leaarning and isn't that what we are to do as followers of the way. Questions also lead us to the door of change, maybe it's because this mystery is too big we say questions aren't allowed.
Thomas' question today leads us logically to the question of how do we unknow? How do wd dare to ask questions when all our life we have been told everything is figured out? This is not the way though. Following the way means daring to ask the questions.
Right now we have come to a good spot, it opens us to the questions once again, if we dare to ask them. Now that we have spent two months online at virtual church, what does church look like for us now? What is important, what isn't, do we need the whole set of things we did before or can we find new ways to be church? They're scary questions because we've never done it this way before. Neither had the disciples. The church in Acts can be such an example to us, it had to struggle with becoming something out of what had been Judiasm. It was change full blown, led by the Spirit.
What would it be to be that church when we start to think of coming back. The church which is led by the Spirit to question. The church that is led by the Spirit to unknow everything from before and make new. The church led by the Spirit to question, what would that church be? What could that church become?
Are your ready to ask the hard questions? Are you ready to unknow? Are you ready to be an Easter people who have come out on the other side of death and know all the questioning gives life? New life, resurrected life because we have changed from this and there is no going back, so walk forward.
It makes me think of the song from Rodgers and Hammerstien's Carousel, the snatches I remember are walking on through the storm, your head held high, and the point is you will never walk alone. We don't walk alone, we walk by the questions of faith.
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