by Marcia Mount Shoop
2 Timothy 2:8-16
“What is our gospel? What is the gospel that can truly set us free? The one that is unchained and the one that we can trust to break our chains? What is the gospel that teaches us the ways of the Jesus who is faithful, the Jesus who cannot and will not abandon himself and the truth he lived and breathed in a struggling world.
That’s the Jesus who calls us to remember–to remember how he lived and how he died and how he gave us glimpses of eternity. That’s the Jesus who doesn’t just want to be a memory, but who fills us with his own flesh and blood so that our bodies can be healed, so that our bodies can move and breathe in the freedom that only love can give us.
If our gospel is the gospel that is unchained, if our Jesus is the Jesus who does not deny himself–then our gospel cannot be one that is deployed to put anyone in chains, then our gospel cannot be an instrument of erasing Jesus’ truth.”
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(Scripture and sermon begin at 30:35)