Jesus said to his disciples, “Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.”
John 20.21
In this Easter appearance Jesus gives his friends a purpose that makes the passage a fitting Pentecost gospel. Jesus sends disciples as the Father sent him. He commissions them and us to continue his mission. For this purpose Jesus breathes his animating Spirit upon them just as the Creator breathed life into the first humans in Genesis 2.24.
What nudgings of the Spirit do you perceive recurring in you? How do you respond?
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