I wonder what you thought about yesterday’s quote from Bob Goff.
When Jesus rose from the dead, he didn’t make a speech; he made his friends breakfast.
For me, it says that we often lose track of the “relationship” part of Jesus. We forget that he invited us to follow him on a journey, and that we don’t travel that journey by ourselves.
I sometimes imagine Jesus showing up today. Of course, none of us has any idea what that would look like, but I suspect most folks think he would gravitate toward a church. Maybe a big church, where he could command worship, a large audience, and perhaps worldwide streaming video.
Me? I think he would show up in the same places he hung out 2000 years ago. I think we’d be likely to find him, wearing blue jeans and a T-shirt, in a homeless encampment or visiting immigrants at risk of deportation. Maybe he’d be serving meals at a women’s shelter.
I imagine he’d visit and comfort the kids at our Home of Hope.
He told us specifically to look for him in these sorts of places. And none of them is a fancy church building with worship and praise music. None of them is my comfortable, safe suburban neighborhood, either.
In fact, none of them is a place I spend any time.
I wonder what that says about how sincere I am when I say, “I’m seeking Jesus?”