You Have Been Sent…

“Again Jesus said, “Peace be with you!

As the Father has sent me, I am sending you.”

John 20:21

 

 

Did all of your education take place at school?

Did all of your nurturing take place at home?

For most of us the answer to those two questions is “No!”

Neither should we expect that our spiritual growth will take place inside the four walls of the local church.

I have to wonder how patient Peter, James, John and the rest of the twelve would be today in our modern model of the church?

I wonder how long before they grew restless with the “us in here and them out there” behavior.

Jesus taught once in the Temple.

He once overturned the moneychanger’s tables there.

But look at where most of the signs and wonders took place.

Look at where some of His greatest teachings were.

The Sermon on the Mount was not a sermon at the temple mount.

It was on a mountainside among the people.

He was out and about where the people were.

Some might argue that it was there only because that was where the crowds could be accommodated.

But that misses the point.

God sent His Son.

He sent Him to a world in need of redemption.

He sent Him to the sick in need of a physician.  

He sent Him to the woman caught in the very act of adultery.

In other words Jesus went where people were hurting.

Have you been sent?

Sounds like maybe we all have been…