A witness to the light
Last week I read many commentaries trying to explain away why anybody should eat locusts. Why these clever scholars thought it was at all interesting I don’t know. We have I’m a Celebrity get me out here so locusts really aren’t all that bad. This week’s lectionary reading (John 1:6-8) says something much more important about the man named John who was sent by God.
John, says John (a different one), “came to testify to the light”. It is amazing how many different versions of Jesus, the light, there are amongst Christians. This is something that Marcus Borg picks up on in his Jesus: uncovering the Life, teachings and Relevance of a Religious Revolutionary. Funny how the books you casually pick up to read have an immediate impact on your thoughts for Sunday. He says:
How Christians tell the story of Jesus deeply affects how we see God and the Christian life
What kind of Jesus do our lives give testimony to?
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