Scripture: John 21:1-19
Dear Church,
But these words are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name. (John 20:31)
These are the last words of the twentieth chapter of the Gospel of John. They sound like an ending, don’t they? But they aren’t. Belief in the Risen Lord isn’t the finish line. It’s the starting line.
So–what happened next? Well, Peter invited his friends to go fishing and they didn’t catch anything. Because there’s no turning back.
Once we ‘believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God’ we get ‘life in his name.’
Life in his name.
And life in his name will be different than the life we had before belief. You might even say it’s like being…born again. Which is why Jesus shows up on the beach and gives Peter (and all of us) a rapid orientation into our new life.
I hope you will join me as together we’ll learn how Jesus is calling us into something new–and nourishing us for the journey.
Peace,
Pastor Kate
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