This week's sermon: "The All-Providing King Who Would Not Be King"
Bread exists to point us to Jesus. Its goodness and nourishment beckon us beyond the bread itself to the One who is "the Bread of Life."
But the large crowd in John 6 doesn't yet see beyond the bread to Jesus. They see him as the Prophet, but they don't see that he is God
and not simply like Moses. They see him as king, but they don't see that his
power is not military conquest but the power of the cross and of radical new
desires.
Jesus didn't come into the world to lend his power to already existing
appetites. That's the kind of claim that Jesus walks
away from, not the gospel.