WHO DO YOU SAY I AM?

There is a question at the center of the Christian life that never stops asking itself: who do you say that Jesus is? In Luke, we find Jesus at prayer before a pivotal moment in his ministry, and when he finishes, he turns to those following him and asks exactly that. It is a question that cuts through everything we have heard from others, everything we have inherited from tradition, and lands squarely on us. We spend much of our early faith borrowing answers from the people around us, parents, teachers, friends, mentors, and that is a good and necessary thing. But at some point, the question becomes personal. Jesus does not ask who your grandmother says he is, or who your Sunday school teacher says he is. He asks who we say he is. This message invites us to sit with that question honestly, to resist the urge to give the answer we think we are supposed to give, and instead to speak from where we actually are in our journey. Faith is not the possession of a correct answer. It is participation in a lifelong process of discovery, struggle, and growth. And the good news is that we do not answer this question alone. We answer it together, as a community of people who are still becoming disciples.