Kingdom Vineyard

In the two events of this passage we see two different reactions to Jesus, and where each one leads: Invitation or Indignation.

In the two events of this passage we see two different reactions to Jesus, and where each one leads: Invitation or Indignation.

First century Jews were desperate for God to send a saviour. God did just that... but not everyone recognised him. John did, and testified to the imminent arrival ... of God himself.

First century Jews were desperate for God to send a saviour. God did just that... but not everyone recognised him. John did, and testified to the imminent arrival ... of God himself.

Jesus is the light that illuminates who God really is, who we really are, and what the world really looks like. It is sometimes difficult and hard to accept, but those who choose light and reject darkness will find life.

Jesus is the light that illuminates who God really is, who we really are, and what the world really looks like. It is sometimes difficult and hard to accept, but those who choose light and reject darkness will find life.

Do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God.

Do justice, love kindness, and walk humbly with your God.

As Paul closes this letter to the wayward church at Corinth, he knows they may still be wavering between himself and the false apostles who have misled them.  So he challenges them, with four vital pastoral questions:

What’s true?

What’s real?

Where are we heading?

What’s important?

As we seek to get in tune with God’s cosmic plan for reconciliation, we could do worse than ask ourselves the same questions.

As Paul closes this letter to the wayward church at Corinth, he knows they may still be wavering between himself and the false apostles who have misled them.  So he challenges them, with four vital pastoral questions:

What’s true?

What’s real?

Where are we heading?

What’s important?

As we seek to get in tune with God’s cosmic plan for reconciliation, we could do worse than ask ourselves the same questions.