Daily Lectionary for September 10, 2010
Psalm 145
Job 29:1, 31:24-40
Acts 15:12-21
John 11:30-44
Acts 15:12-21
One of the interesting side stories peeks out in this passage - specifically, James, the brother of Jesus serving as head of the church in Jerusalem. It's kind of amazing that rather than Peter, probably the most vividly realized disicple in the gospels or James, the brother (that's BROTHER) of Jesus, it is Paul who comes to play probably the largest role - after Jesus - in the development of Christianity.
John 11:30-44
That peson in Lazarus tomb. It was Lazarus - and it was/is us. It is us in our lostness and living in a world of deathness and that is Jesus coming up on us in such a state and in seeing our state he, the Son of God, is deeply moved, moved even to tears. And he has the stone holding us captive moved aside and speaks our name, calls our name - calls it because he knows it and because he wants us to emerge. And in spite of our lostness and living in a world of deathness that voice reaches us and we, like our brother Lazarus, may come forth. And gather together. And worship and praise and unbind one another to follow the one whose voice called us forth.
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