Look Up

Follow this link to see all the passages for this Sunday’s lectionary readings: https://lectionary.library.vanderbilt.edu/texts.php?id=74

In our Sunday service, we will read Numbers 21: 4-9 and John 3:14-21. The passage from John contains one of the most quoted verses of the New Testament, John 3:16. "For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him may not perish but may have eternal life.”

This statement is made by Jesus in the midst of his conversation with Nicodemus during his late-night visit to question Jesus about who he is and what it means to be made new, to be born again.

We will examine the link between the Numbers passage and the passage from John and think about what it means to “look up” when God bids us, and what it means to be drawn to the light of Christ.