Jesus’s teaching on (in)dependence
Pentecost | Acts 2:1-21, John 14:8-17 (25-27)
We return again to the Last Supper as told in John, a sequence often referred to as Jesus’s farewell discourse. A conversation in which Jesus offers his final teachings, yes, but more assurance and comfort. And as we’ve been in this sequence the last few weeks, we ought to be quite familiar with the themes here: Jesus’s love and encouragement. The coming of the Holy Spirit. Unity in Jesus and with Jesus.
We explored that last theme last week, in the Sunday after the Ascension, when Jesus prayed that the disciples would be one, and that all those who learned from the disciples, and the ones who learned from their disciples, and their disciples, all the way through time and space to this very moment — that we would all be one in Jesus. And not just one in our conflict-obsessed present understanding, but united in love through this divine partnership, through our very substance, as Jesus and God are one. Keep Reading
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