John 1:38-39a

Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?” They said, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?” “Come,” he replied, “and you will see.”

From Background Notes [BN] for Oct 25th & 26th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

Few Christians in the west (including the U.S.) are innocent in their religious choices, even if they check “No” on the recent census when asked about affiliation.

 

For them, doing so implies that they have long decided that not following Jesus has become their most recent decision even if others once chose for them. And even then, they may have decided not to follow Jesus by allowing their regular participation in church life to merely lapse, probably when they passed their teenage years and had half a brain to start thinking on their own. College has a way of waking children from their dogmatic slumbers and shocking parents into recognizing that, like it or not, the young person they claim as their offspring no longer decides what their parents once decided for them. Welcome to adulthood! I realize the cynicism in what I’ve written here, and cynics are, by and large, cowards at heart, not wanting to believe anything is quite so certain as to decide about it. After all deciding to follow Jesus sounds like a choice we should probably stick with through “hell and high water.” Who among us honestly faces that choice with enthusiasm? [BN,4]

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