John 11:21

“Lord,” Martha said to Jesus, “if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

From Background Notes [BN] for March 28th & 29th written by Pastor Bob Brown:

By telling the story of Jesus’ delay before his arrival in Bethany, the writer of John 11 offers a rich imaginative text for future Christians to make sense out of their own futures, and also a way to handle what became for them the problem of Jesus’ delayed coming again.

Did the Twelve really believe that Jesus would delay his coming 2,000 years? What do we do with this gap in the bigger story? How does the church carry out its mission until Jesus finally arrives? Tapping into the language of John 11 also gives us helpful ways to talk about those questions to be sure. [BN,2]

Join us this week in Study, Worship, Praise and Celebration at Chicago First Church of the Nazarene:

* Saturday 6:00pm
* Sunday 8:30am, 10am (FX) and 11:15am