Reversal

Our choice of actions, both big and small, have a cascading impact on others, spreading outward like ripples on a pond. This visual metaphor emphasizes the power we have to create change in our communities through our choices and interactions with others. Every act of kindness and compassion, or negativity and hate, can have far-reaching consequences.

In this series, we explore the beginnings of Jesus’ ministry in the Gospel of Luke. What can we learn from the choices that Jesus and those around him made? What difference did the “ripples” of those choices make both then and now? As followers of Jesus, how will the “ripples” of our choices make a difference on our campus, in our community, and around our world?

In this sermon, we see that Jesus taught his disciples that the roles in the Kingdom of God will be reversed from the roles of this world. “Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled.” “But woe to you are rich, for you have received your consolation.”