The Hard Sayings of Jesus: What is that to you?

Listen along as we celebrate the resurrection and look at our final hard saying of Jesus.

Notes//Quotes:

John 21:20-25

“The original creation of light itself is almost too extraordinary to take in. The little cookout on the beach is almost too ordinary to take seriously. Yet if Scripture is to be believed, enormous stakes were involved in them both, and still are.” - Frederick Buechner

“Jesus matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weaknesses he gives us strength and and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity.” - Dallas Willard

1 Peter 1:3-5

“The disciples go fishing but catch nothing. Jesus then helps them to an enormous catch but proceeds to commission Peter to be a shepherd rather than a fisherman. There are many things going on simultaneously here, but at the center is the challenge to a new way of life, a new forgiveness, a new fruitfulness, a new following of Jesus, which will be wider and more dangerous than what has gone before. The resurrection isn’t just a surprise happy ending for one person; it is instead the turning point for everything else. - NT Wright