Sermon: A Bad Family Reunion July 7, 2024
A Bad Family Reunion
by the Rev. Salying Wong
In his hometown, Jesus receives the worst rejection. Unlike Satan, Rome, the religious establishment, this was personal. These were the people who saw him grow up. Unfortunately, Nazareth had a small sense of themselves and so had a small sense of what God could do through them. It was preposterous to them that anyone who came from them could have power and wisdom like Jesus; they couldn't imagine anything as insane as the messiah being from their town. They were offended by Jesus being bigger than he ought to be as a Nazarene. Jesus was amazed by this and gathered his disciples to teach them how to handle rejection. People cannot be our source of identity--if we orient ourselves this way, we will be confused as to who we are, fantasizing that if we just get them to like us, we'd be okay. But that is a deadly path. The path that leads to life is the path that orients on God as the source of our identity.
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