Gospel: John 6: 22-29
The crowds have witnessed an incredible miracle of Jesus where he feeds everyone. They follow him across the lake from town to town with great interest. They ask Jesus what they must do to perform the works of God that Jesus encourages them to do. To do the works of God are to do the works that Jesus himself performed while he was on earth. What are these works?
Jesus went about healing people of all their infirmities - blindness, infirmity, inability to walk, leprosy, and so much more. He liberated people from the demons that held them in captivity, from real demons to addictions, idolatries, and ideological manias that enslave us. And he nourished people body and soul with his food and presence at table, the place of ultimate reconciliation, healing, and liberation.
So this is our task in the world today - to do these works of the Lord Jesus in our time and place, in all the situations that present themselves to us in our daily life. Like Jesus, we are to provide these things to all people without exclusion or exception. That such an idea is now considered controversial in the Christian Church is a sad thing indeed.
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