Yesterday’s SCS Class and today’s appointed Bible reading have a touch point in my mind which I hope I can communicate to you.
In our LCM SCS Class, we are reading Rob Bell’s Velvet Elvis. The chapter covered yesterday is captured in Bell’s Nooma video, Disciple. Bell speaks of a disciple as one who seeks to do what the Rabbi does. Not merely know what the Rabbi knows, but do what the Rabbi does. This is why Peter, Jesus’ disciple, asks his Rabbi to bid him come out on the water. Peter sees his Rabbi walking on the water and he is so committed to his Rabbi that he asks that he might do what his Rabbi is doing.
Bell’s chapter in the book lifts up those of us who are Jesus’ disciples and it reminds us that Jesus has called us to be disciples. Jesus calls us because Jesus believes we are capable of doing what it is that he does.
In today’s reading, from I Peter 1, I read these words: “May grace and peace be multiplied to you.” Here is Peter, disciple of Jesus, speaking to the followers of Jesus scattered across the world. He speaks of the multiplication of grace and peace.
Grace and peace are God’s gift for us. Disciples do not create grace nor peace, but we can speak of them, and see that they are multiplied.
I sometimes think that we shy away from doing what our Rabbi does because we link his work with information. We don’t know “the answer” so we remain silent. The gifts of Christ, the work which he came to do, was to bring grace and peace. We don’t need the right answer to multiply the availability of these marvelous gifts.
Some folks might be convinced (by way of “right answers”) that Jesus is Lord, but most will come to that realization as a result of being overcome with God’s grace and by experiencing God’s peace. Doing what our Rabbi does means carrying grace and peace to those in need of these gifts of God.
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