BRUNSWICK UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Visitors
  • Events
  • Give Online/Donate
  • Children & Youth Ministries
  • Missions & Outreach
    • Food Pantry
  • Get Involved
    • Steeplevues Newsletter
    • Music
    • Speaker Series 2022
  • Contact Us
  • Message from the Pastor

The GOAT

4/2/2022

1 Comment

 
Picture
"The Last Supper" by Fritz von Uhde (1886)

It was yet another dispute when all he was hoping for was a nice, quiet, peaceful meal – was that asking so much? It seems this time it was, and the dispute won out. The “disputers” and the “disputees” brought their dispute to him in order to set the record straight. And so, like a parent
arbitrating an argument between squabbling children, setting the record straight is what Jesus did.

The meal was the Passover – lots of food, lots of remembrance, and not a little bit of wine. The “disputers” and the “disputees” were Jesus’ followers, also known as the disciples.

And the dispute? It was over who was the greatest of among them—the Greatest of All Time— or as they refer to it in the world of professional sports, the GOAT. So they turned to Jesus, and who knows? Maybe when the dispute was settled one of them would get Jesus’ vote for being the greatest among the disciples.

But Jesus set the record straight with these words: “Among you it will be different. Those who are the greatest among you should take the lowest rank, and the leader should be like a servant. Who is more important, the one who sits at the table or the one who serves? The one who sits at the
table, of course. But not here! For I am among you as one who serves.” (Luke 22:25-27).

~ Pastor Tom

Jesu, Jesu, fill us with your love, show us how to serve the neighbors we have from you.”
(hymn: "Jesu, Jesu")
1 Comment
    Picture

    Thomas Shaw

    United Methodist Pastor, Child of God, Follower of Jesus Christ.

    Archives

    May 2022
    April 2022
    March 2022
    February 2022
    March 2021
    February 2021
    December 2020
    August 2020
    July 2020
    June 2020
    May 2020
    April 2020

    Faith,
    Hope,
    Love,
    ​ Bible, Christianity, God, Community, Church, Religion, Worship, Methodist, Brunswick Ohio

    All

    RSS Feed

"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can."
 

—John Wesley, founder of the Methodist Movement

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Visitors
  • Events
  • Give Online/Donate
  • Children & Youth Ministries
  • Missions & Outreach
    • Food Pantry
  • Get Involved
    • Steeplevues Newsletter
    • Music
    • Speaker Series 2022
  • Contact Us
  • Message from the Pastor