Religion & Spirituality
Crisis Discipleship Watch the service on Youtube : https://youtu.be/HNKABFbm-BM I don’t know about you, but it seems to me that we have been in a crisis moment in our country lately. The pandemic has put us all in crisis mode as we learned new ways to work, worship, go to the grocery store, and educate our children. The racial unrest in our country reignited a crisis moment as we reevaluated “things we have done and things we have left undone” when it comes to systemic and individual changes. The political divide at our Capitol revealed a crisis of conscience as we realized our democracy is simultaneously frail and resilient. In all of these instances crisis might seem to have a negative connotation. Certainly the characters that make up the word in Chinese would believe that because the first is translated as “danger.” The second, however, is best translated as “turning point.” As we turn the page on a new year, as we turn the pages of history, Jesus also calls us to turn. He calls us to turn away from fear and toward him in hope. He calls us to turn away from sin and toward him in repentance. He calls us to turn away from idols and bad news and toward him and the good news of the kin-dom of God. For in our moments of deepest crisis, God-with-us calls us to be his disciples and to catch others with God’s reign of justice, peace, resurrection, and love!