Sermon Series: Welcome of Resurrection
Doubters Welcome
John 20: 19-31, NRSV
Psalm 56:1-4; 8-11, NRSV
Reflections
I’m grateful to be a practicing Christian. I’m always amazed when people say, “I’m a Christian.” I think, “Already?” It’s an ongoing process. You know, you keep trying. And blowing it and trying and blowing it.
— Maya Angelou
- Disciples are more known for their failures
- We are often pegged to certain identity, based on what happen to us
- We often reduce our identity to our failures
- Thomas’ Failure – Doubt
- Jesus reacted to Thomas by paying attention to his specific pain and invited him to behold his own wounds with his hands
- God meets us with peace and comfort in our pain
- v29 – Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe
- Jesus turned Thomas’s own pain and doubt to face outward to others and their pain and doubts in mission
