How Connected are You?

How connected are you? Most of us have a real connection with one or two people, perhaps a spouse, a child, a parent, a friend. Some of us may have a connection with the Holy, some with a community, others have no connection at all, with anyone.

Jesus had some very important words in the gospel of John about connections. In John 15:1-11 Jesus begins by saying:

"I am the vine, you are the branches."

As we approach Holy week I want to ask you about your connections - who are you connected to? When Jesus says, "I am the vine - you are the branches" He is giving us a way to picture how we are called to be connected all that is Holy. He gives us an understanding of how the community of faith is connected - first to God and then to one another. Find a grapevine and look at how everything is connected to the vine - from growing as the branches to the production of fruit nothing happens without a connection.

I invite you to connect with the Holy - the vine of life.

WTL

Jesus - The Way, the truth, the life - 03/18/09

"I am the way, the truth and the Life, no one comes to the Father but through me."

These words from the Gospel of John (14:6) are some of the most powerful words Jesus utters - in any place. They are powerful because they tell us exactly who Jesus is. "He is the way, the truth and the life." And they are often words truly misunderstood as absolutely exclusive.

But I believe these words are exclusively inclusive - they are words that bring us together under one banner, they are words that demand from us a choice, they are words that, if we believe them require a new way of living.

The question is do you believe it?