Sermon Details
- Pastor Name: Jonathan Cornell
- Date & Time: January 11, 2015 | 10:00am
SERMON SERIES:
Turning Tables
There is a phenomenon today that I think is sweeping through our culture. The culprit? YouTube. Some of you may be familiar with “The YouTube.” Some of you may have been sucked down what my family calls “the YouTube Wormhole.” If you have, then you know what I’m talking about. A well meaning friend or family member sends you a video of cats climbing into small spaces or 5 year olds playing the drums, something cute or fascinating they found on YouTube. One video leads to a second and a third, and pretty soon moments turn into hours and you’re trapped in the vortex.
But even worse is that we watch videos of these amazing feats, like 5 year olds banging away on the drums, and we say, “Meh, that’s not so amazing; I’ve seen it before.” They don’t captivate us anymore, they don’t make a claim on us or invite us to a deeper sense of wonderment or cause us to reflect upon the bigger circumstances of our human race. Am I being overly philosophical about YouTube? Probably.
Why I say this is that I think something similar can happen to us when we read God’s Word. There are so many things going on around us that we move too quickly from one thing to the next, and we become desensitized to what God wants to show or teach us each and every time we open His Word. We read these stories and these passages and we think to ourselves, “Yep, I know that one, heard it before.” Glossing over the deep and rich messages that are there for us each and every time.
Today’s story is one of these passages: our Lord’s feeding of the 5,000. Which for those of you who are keeping track at home, is one of only a few stories that makes it into all four gospel narratives. This passage is one of those stories that many of us have known since the time we began. In fact, most people—even those who don’t read the Bible regularly—are familiar with the feeding of the 5,000.
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Luke 9 10-17 Serving the Meal
