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Boomerang Meme
OK Boomer
Chloe Swarbrick
My kids
The “N” word of ageism
Only appropriate response?
OK Boomer.
Avocado on toast
Lines that divide.
Walls in between us
Not just generational
Political
Geographical
Sporting
Familial
All of these divisions build walls in between us, and separate us from the way that God intends for us to live our fullest potential as members of the human community
This is what it means to be fully human.
To be joined together in God’s family, in the fellowship of the Holy Spirit.
The barriers that divide us are the enemy of this hope.
How then can we come together?
Jericho
What do we know about Jericho?
Answers to Prayer
Characters in the story
Jesus - doing Jesus things.
Zacchaeus?
LEft out
Isolated
Aware of his own brokenness
Ready to make amends
But also a real jerk!
The Grumbling Crowd?
They’re a bit on the self-righteous side
Don’t understand the Kingdom
Also living under the weight of oppression, with that oppression symbolised by one of their own - Zacchaeus.
There’s a wall in between.
A wall that Jesus breaks down in a succession of miracles.
The Four Miracles
That Zacchaeus was there
That he made a fool of himself
That he repented and made restitution
That the people were freed from oppression
Cheap Grace
Tempting for us to think that all we have to do is say “sorry” and move on.
How would that have worked for the people of Jericho?
How would that have worked for Zacchaeus?
There is no such thing as cheap grace.
Jesus spent his time on earth leading others towards grace, knowing the price that he must pay on our behalf.
Jesus calls us to follow him in pursuing costly grace.
It’s waht we call following Jesus
It’s what we call discipleship.
It’s what we call living in the light.
To prepare for change, we need to be prepared to change.
Miraculous change in our own lives - doesn’t come like a bolt from the blue, comes from participating in what God is doing in our lives.
Why DOES Jesus dine with sinners?
So many of Jesus’ miracles end up with outcasts being restored to their community.
So many of Jesus miracles put into practice that Kingdom hope of a restored humanity, with all walls broken down.
What about us?
Often I try to leave a sermon with some practical ways that we can apply the message to our own lives.
But Jesus turn our lives upside down.
He doesn’t leave us with safe answers, but calls us into costly questions.
So I want to leave you with two questions, two questions that will take miracles to answer.
Two questions that can lead us into a restored humaniity, the household of Christ.
Two questions that can destroy the wall that divides, and make us one.
Two questions that can become answers to prayer - prayers of our own, and prayers of others who are, at the end of the day, just like us.
Like the people of Jericho, who do we need to forgive?
Like Zacchaeus, how do we need to pay the price of grace?
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