Scripture:
What kind of Jesus, gospel and faith are Christians showing the world? Is the Jesus the world sees through Christians, the Jesus of the gospels? In "Truth in Advertising," Debie Thomas breaks down this week's gospel account of Jesus setting his face toward Jerusalem, and the cross, treachery, and suffering which awaits him, and his response to those who encounter him.
She says Jesus is not much of a salesman, as he answers the disciples and would be followers. Why, or why not? What are we "selling" the world? What is Jesus "selling?" In his book of the same title, Bonhoeffer writes about the cost of discipleship. At one point he says Christ calls us to "come and die." What does he mean?
In "Freedom," appropriate for this weekend before the 4th of July, David W. Peters discusses the freedom in that great freedom Epistle of Paul to the Galatians. What are we free to do, or not do? What is freedom in Christ? In what we do and say, are we acting in the freedom Jesus offers us, or in our own self interests? Are they exclusive of each other? How can we align them if they are at odds.
Read the Rev. Joseph Pagano's "The Way." And who is Jesus to those who don't believe? Read Dan Clendenin's "My Favorite Verse That's Not In The Bible."
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