Questions Jesus Asks: What Are You Looking For?

Trinity United Methodist Church's Podcast

“What are you looking for?” I don’t know about you, but it seems I am always looking for something! Usually, it is my keys, glasses, or ink pen. On a more significant level, some of us are looking for a job. The unemployment rate remains at 8.3%, so about 1 in 12 of us is searching for work. Sometimes we are not sure what we are looking for in life, and we end up looking in all the wrong places and to all of the wrong people to meet our felt needs. Everybody is looking for, searching for, and needing some essential elements in his or her life. It is Jesus who asks this vital probing question, “What are you looking for?”

Here he is at the very beginning of his public life. Two of the disciples of John the baptizer begin to follow Jesus. Jesus turns and sees them and the very first words out of his mouth in this gospel are those of this timeless inquiry, “What are you looking for?” There was something in Jesus’ words, his voice, his face, the way he carried himself that compelled those men to follow Jesus and to begin to bring others to do the same. One of them was named Andrew and he went and brought his brother Simon Peter to Jesus because in that initial meeting with Jesus, he had found what he was looking for.

This Sunday we begin together a new sermon series, QUESTIONS JESUS ASKS, with the message, “What Are You Looking For?” from John 1:35-42.

Questions Jesus Asks: What Are You Looking For?
Seventh Sunday After Pentecost
Scripture: John 1:35-42
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