BONUS BLOG: Welcome Home!

“We are all part of this story now, both saints and sinners, writes Don Saliers in last week’s entries in The Upper Room’s Disciplines 2020 book.

In finishing up John 9:24-41‘s scene of the healing of the man born blind, Don says —

“Suddenly full disclosure comes. What has been dawning slowly all the while suddenly bursts into full sight.

“Here is John’s Gospel in miniature, startled by the great theme that runs throughout it: All who yearn to understand who Jesus is are invited to ‘come and see!’

“We are all part of this story now, both saints and sinners.”

— And so, as you might have heard me say at the start of a worship service, “Welcome home!”