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Pastor's Ponderings

​Pastor’s Ponderings for Sunday, April 18, 2021
Focus question: What does it mean to be witnesses today?
 
Our assigned Gospel text for this Sunday is:
Ponderances: Nothing makes a preacher happier than preparing a sermon on a text that looks much the same as the week before. However, the real joy in this for the preparation of the sermon is that no two texts are exactly the same! Which means, while last week, Pastor Renee honed in on “Shalom Peace” because of the fear that was apparent with the disciples we will be able to go an entirely different direction. I am struck in this text by Jesus eating with the disciples. It seems simple and almost innocuous except that he had just come back from the dead! To sit and eat with his disciples is a comforting reminder. Conversation, I am certain, came about during this gathering and we are left at the end of this with, “You are witnesses of these things.” What does it mean to be a witness? To attest to what you have seen, right? How has God moved in your life? How have you been able to witness God’s movement? But the thing is, being a witness is both passive and active. The passiveness comes in the act of seeing and the activity comes with telling about it. We are not witnesses unless we share. Ponder on this this week as we move toward Sunday. Join us at 9:00 in the parking lot and for donuts after!

Be well dear ones,
PB