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It Takes All Kinds
We tend to think of conversion as an end result – but conversions are really about beginnings. They are only a first step.
The Real Deal
This week John explains the ways that we can know that we have been raised with Christ – that we are the real deal when it comes to being disciples.
Certainly
After four appearances – two of which have been among the assembled disciples – and the reports of the witnesses who have seen and believed, it’s easy for us to say that the disciples should be over this doubt thing by now. I think the problem is that we are just too familiar with the reports of the resurrection to identify with the way it turned their world upside down. It was just too good to be true.
Prototype
Before the cross, Jesus referred to the disciples as his “friends” – but in the garden after his resurrection, for the first time Jesus refers to the disciples as “brothers,” not because we have done something to become his brothers, but because he has become ours. Now that he has shared the same experience of death that all of humanity experiences, he has become our brother in all ways.
Found Safe and Sound
But John’s gospel is a gospel full of paradox: Jesus goes to his death – his apparent defeat - crowned with thorns, dressed like a king and followed by crowds; and later emerges triumphant from the tomb, attended by only two angels and then simply appears in the garden, nearly unrecognizable…and so it turns out that the truth of the resurrection isn’t something that explodes out of the tomb, readily apparent – it slips quietly into our understanding one disciple at a time…
