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St John's Vancouver Anglican Church, Vancouver is a community of Christians dedicated to the exposition and teaching of the Word of God, to the spreading of the good news of the Gospel at home and abroad, and to the application of God's purpose in our own lives and families.
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Looking for Jesus in All the Wrong Places |
Jul 19, 2009 |
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The world we live in today is not the world that God made. Deep down there's a breakage, a disconnect with the God we are commanded to love. The story of the Bible is the story of God turning things the right way up. The cross shows once and for all that God's agenda is not the same as our agenda; the greatest reversal is the resurrection. What is most surprising in this passage is how Jesus deals with His disciples who kept looking for Him in all the wrong places. He doesn't just say "Look, it's me!" During a seven-hour walk, He opened the scripture to two of them - He probably explained all the books of the Old Testament to them. But it is at a meal where Jesus finally reveals Himself...
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