by Marcia Mount Shoop
John 9:1-41
“When it comes down to it, believing isn’t really about seeing, it’s about being able to change, it’s about being able to be challenged in long held beliefs, it’s about having the courage to tell the truth in our community about what we are learning about the way God works to heal the parts of us we didn’t even ask to be healed.
Belief is about transformation–the kind of transformation that changes the ways our bodies actually function, the kind of belief that challenges our capacity to be witnesses to a God who can work in us and through us to change the world, to change our community, to change the way we see the world, the way we see each other, the way we see ourselves.
Conversion experiences are never comfortable, and they don’t leave us the same. Conversion experiences don’t create people who tend the status quo, they create believers who just deep down in our bones know that God is doing a new thing in our midst. And that the ways we’ve made sense of the world up to now aren’t the skills that God needs us to use to co-create a better world.”
Watch the full GCPC service on 3/19/23 here
(Scripture and sermon begin at 50:45)