What Are You After?
What Are You After?
Run into anyone famous lately? It's always interesting to see how people respond when they find themselves in the presence of a celebrity - someone famous. We get awed or "wowed" by people we find to be impressive in some way. Then, we get to name drop later, as if some of that impressiveness rubs off on us.
You wonder if that might have been a little of John the Baptism must have felt when he saw Jesus that day as he was speaking and baptizing in the Jordan. You wonder what the disciples who heard John's announcement, and then turned their attention to Jesus. When they come, Jesus asks them, "What are you after? What do you want?" And they respond, "Where are you staying?" There are some pretty amazing things that came out of that conversation that day, that is the conversation that Pastor Jon invites us to reflect upon as he unpacks that conversation in the sermon this Sabbath, as we prepare to celebrate communion together.
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John 1
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35 The next day John was there again with two of his disciples. 36 When he saw Jesus passing by, he said, “Look, the Lamb of God!”
37 When the two disciples heard him say this, they followed Jesus.38 Turning around, Jesus saw them following and asked, “What do you want?”
They said, “Rabbi” (which means “Teacher”), “where are you staying?”
39 “Come,” he replied, “and you will see.”
So they went and saw where he was staying, and they spent that day with him. It was about four in the afternoon.
40 Andrew, Simon Peter’s brother, was one of the two who heard what John had said and who had followed Jesus. 41 The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon and tell him, “We have found the Messiah” (that is, the Christ). 42 And he brought him to Jesus.
Jesus looked at him and said, “You are Simon son of John. You will be called Cephas” (which, when translated, is Peter).