Rev. Zach

[This meditation was delivered online in lieu of in-person worship due to adverse winter weather. It was preceded by reading the scripture in the form of Lectio Divina .] Whatever gift God has given you through this time of reflection was for you, even if it was only a time of silence. The word that settled on my heart was “follow.” Maybe that’s because it was repeated 3 times. Jesus said to them, "Follow me and I will make you fish for people."  And immediately they left their nets and followed him; they left Zebedee and the hired help and they followed him. Maybe I just like the word "follow" because “followers of the way of Jesus” is what the early believers were called well before they were called “Christians.” We usually call these first few “Disciples,” and sometimes we act as though that title, Disciple, only describes 12 men who lived about 2,000 years ago. Maybe that is because there is some shred of humility and dower Calvinism in us that makes us feel unw...