August 21, 2022 "When Given New Life...What Will You Do With It?"

Raising of Lazarus: what a story. Jesus says, "I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die; and whoever lives by believing in me will never die. Do you believe this?" What the heck does that mean? Lazarus is still dead. What's going on here? Perhaps Jesus said those things and then John recorded them for us so that we would open up the way we think - to conceive of the world differently - to understand that things aren't always as they seem, not as long as Jesus is around. We don't do this often enough. We like to keep our thinking closed. If we open up our thinking it can also open us up to being wrong - it means we're open to risk and failure. New ways of thinking aren't always bet with enthusiasm and acceptance. But this isn't just an opportunity to open up our thinking. It's also an invitation to change the way we live. We can live a new and different life now. Once Lazarus walked out of the tomb, he had a choice as to how he was going to live. So. If you were to die and then be given a Lazarus opportunity, how would you live? What kinds of things would you do? What would your priorities be? Speaker: Aaron Vis Scripture: John 11:1-44 http://bible.com/events/48941403