January 12, 2017
Dear MLEPC Members and Friends:
If we were to "brainstorm" all of the adjectives we could come up with to describe the word "news," I believe our list would be quite long. There's good news and bad news, joyful news and sad news, there's old news and new news. Just for fun, I put "adjectives to describe news" in the internet and came up with another list: current, worldwide, informational, recent, useful, inaccurate, shocking, and oh so many more. But if you regularly watch the news as I do, there are three types of news that we hear about daily: breaking news, eyewitness news, and developing news.
In our scripture passage for the day, we see all three of those types of news. John the Baptist comes on the scene and announces breaking news. As Jesus comes toward him, he says, "Behold, the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world." What good and welcome and worldwide, informational news that was and is to us yet today. Then there's eyewitness news as John says, "I saw the Spirit descend from heaven like a dove and it remained on Him," and then a few verses later, "I have seen and borne witness that this is the Son of God." As we witness, people see Jesus in our eyewitness accounts of how He is with us in the current news stories of our lives - both the good and bad news stories. And then, in our passage, there is a developing news story as the story moves to the "next day" and we are introduced to two of Jesus' disciples. And it is this continuing story of the disciples and Jesus in the gospels that is useful news for us today as we live our lives as disciples, followers of Him.
I look forward to sharing more about this rich passage of scripture with you on Sunday. Hope to see you in church!
Love, in Christ,
Linda Pokrajac, Director of Congregational Care
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