1 John 2:23-25
23No one who denies the Son has the Father; everyone who confesses the Son has the Father also. 24Let what you heard from the beginning abide in you. If what you heard from the beginning abides in you, then you will abide in the Son and in the Father. 25And this is what he has promised us, eternal life.
On Easter Sunday we heard the resurrection according to Mark's gospel with what some consider a slightly strange ending -- "And the women said nothing to anyone, for they were afraid." Now clearly, they (or someone else who visited the now-empty tomb) said something to someone because we all know what happened. So when I read this passage from First John (in terms of a warning against antichrists) about "what you heard in the beginning," I think of those women and whomever told the story after them.
What did you hear in the beginning about the story of faith? What made you want to learn more or keep coming to church? What was the story that you heard about the power of Jesus that abides in you? Was it a story of grace and hope? Of forgiveness? Of community? Was it a story that made you afraid like the women were, because you couldn't imagine something so amazing? Remember what you heard in the beginning and let that message abide in you.
Peace,
Pastor Jenn
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