What Happens When You're Left All Alone

About this episode

This episode discusses the deeper meaning of healing in John 9, focusing on the isolation faced by the healed man and the presence of Jesus in his loneliness.

The healing in John 9 is not the good news. Not for this man.The moment he receives his sight, everything else starts falling apart. His neighbors don’t recognize him. The Pharisees interrogate him twice. His own parents hand him over in the middle of his trial to protect themselves. And by the end of the chapter, he has been thrown out of his community, his synagogue, and every structure that was supposed to hold him.He did nothing wrong. And he ends up completely alone.But then verse 35 arrives, quiet and easy to miss: Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And Jesus goes looking for him.That is the good news of John 9. Not the healing. The finding. Jesus moving deliberately toward the one that everything else moved away from.This sermon is part of our Lenten series Listen to Jesus, preaching through the Gospel of John.📖 John 9:1-41🕊️ Preached at St. Martin’s Episcopal Church | Keller, Texas📅 Lent 4

Topics covered

• healing
• community
• isolation
• faith
• spirituality

Keywords

• John 9
• healing
• community
• Pharisees
• Lenten series
• Jesus
• isolation
• synagogue
• faith

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: the Gospel of John

Places: Keller, Texas

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