Sunday, April 30, 2006 Year B - Easter 3

Acts 3:12-19
Psalm 4
1 John 3:1-7
Luke 24:36-48

Notes:

At The Witness Michael Russell is concerned that the disciples are still in the upper room. His focus is on verse 41a

While in their joy they were disbelieving and still wondering

He goes on to say

Perhaps it is not Jesus whom we are most tempted to treat with disbelief and suspicious pondering, but one another.

Confident as we are about God, as long as the brittleness of our inclusivity or exclusivity feed our disbelief in one another, we are still not getting Jesus' message.

Whatever it was the disciples thought about all that had gone before, or for that mater about one another, was subsmed in Jesus' opening their hearts and minds and pointing the way forward.

Wesley White at Kairos Comotion says that

As the week proceeds we prepare ourselves for a holistic peace beyond a piecemeal peace.

Brian Stoffregen at CrossMarks compares the appearances at Emmaus and the upper room and finds similarities.