In seeking Jesus, we see people at their most invested. In clamoring for power and preserving status, we see us at our least.
And Jesus’s challenging way of love
Lent 5B | John 12:20-33
Greeks, Disciples, and Glory. These are the elements in our gospel story today. And elements that seem designed for us to make assumptions. Not certainties; verifiable with clear data; that elusive modern standard of proof. More like that thing we like to call the educated guess.
And as we drift toward these assumptions and guesses, I want to reinforce that the idea that we are to make educated guesses here is clearer than what we’re guessing about.
Jesus and the evangelist want us making conclusions. Which is something many of us are deeply uncomfortable doing with scripture.
And yet we are called to faithfulness. Which is more important than being perfect. Including perfectly accurate…
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