Pathways Christian Fellowship

Welcome to Pathways

A non-denominational place of worship​

To join the service on Zoom contact Pastor Frank  474-4194

10:10 AM, Sunday mornings

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Cycle C of the Revised Common Lectionary is the year of Luke’s gospel. Full of wonderful pastoral images of Jesus’ nativity, not to mention the reunion of Mary and Elizabeth, Luke is a Christmas favorite.

Yet with this week’s text (Luke 21:25-36) we see Jesus not as the newborn babe wrapped in swaddling clothes. Luke is prophesying the day when the Chosen One will arrive on a cloud, full of power and glory in a time when people are dying of fright because the world—or at least life as they know it—is on the verge of coming to an end. It’s like the Grinch is trying to steal Christmas again. Give us our manger back!

The vision in Luke’s gospel is that of the Second Coming, not the first coming we are preparing for as we make lists, check them twice, order gifts online, or brave the vehicular and human traffic at shopping centers. There is a radical invitation in these texts, however, to reorient our thinking, our worship, our buying, and our preparing. Instead of pleasing others, how can we please God?

In contrast to the images we will read in Luke is our passage from Jerimiah (34:14-16) which is full of promise for the future.

So which is it – apocalyptic or promise? Or both?

Let’s find out on Sunday – at 10:15.

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