1. Meeting Jesus
Luke 24:13-35

3. Mother’s Day
What do Mothers really want?

4. Tribute to Mother
• Preached from the fig tree
• Raised 5 children
• Sunday School teacher
• Business partner
• A heart for people on the
margins of society

5. Tribute to Mother
• Preached from the fig tree
• Raised 5 children
• Sunday School teacher
• Business partner
• A heart for people on the
margins of society

6. Tribute to Mother
• Established in 1974
• For homeless and
battered women in
central California
• “An outgrowth of
brokenness”

7. The long journey
• Going home to Emmaus
• 11 km from Jerusalem
• Talking about what had
happened
• We are all on a journey

8. Joined by a stranger
• They did not recognize
him - veiled
• What were you
discussing?
• Recalling a terrible
grief
• “But they did not see
Jesus.”

9. Explaining the Word …
• Did not the Messiah
have to suffer?
• Beginning with Moses
and the prophets, He
explained to them what
was said in all the
Scriptures.

10. … and hosting a Meal
• The dinner guest
became the host
He took the bread,
gave thanks,
broke it,
and gave it to them.
• Their eyes were opened

11. TRANSFORMATION
• How do you know when
someone has been
transformed by God?
• 15 verses to go from
Jerusalem to Emmaus
• 1 verse to go back

12. Meeting Jesus
The risen Lord journeys with us
• Jesus came alongside those travellers and had the
patience to listen to their story and their sorrow
• The church embodies that care
• We are to care for and come alongside each other in
the journey of faith.

13. Meeting Jesus
The risen Lord meets us in worship
Word
• The apostles continued to
make Jesus known through
the ministry of the Word.
• “Christ died for our sins
according to the Scriptures,
that he was buried, that he
was raised on the third day
according to the Scriptures”
(1 Corinth 15:3-4)
Table
• “They devoted themselves
to the apostles’ teaching
and to fellowship, to the
breaking of bread and to
prayer” (Acts 2:42)
• “The Lord Jesus … took
bread, and when he had
given thanks, he broke it” (1
Corinth 11:23-24).

14. Meeting Jesus
The risen Lord meets us in worship
Justin Martyr (2nd
century)
• “, all who live in cities or in the country gather together to
one place, and the memoirs of the apostles or the writings of
the prophets are read, as long as time permits…
• “the president verbally instructs, and exhorts to the
imitation of these good things...”
• “bread and wine and water are brought, and the president in
like manner offers prayers and thanksgivings, according to
his ability, and the people assent, saying Amen.”

15. Meeting Jesus
The risen Lord meets us in worship
“O Thou who this mysterious bread didst in
Emmaus break, return herewith our souls to
feed, and to thy followers speak”
Charles Wesley

16. Meeting Jesus
The risen Lord waits to transform us
• To make known to the world our risen Lord, so that
the world might be transformed.
• Removing the veil
• “And we all, who with unveiled faces contemplate the
Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his image
with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the
Lord, who is the Spirit” (2 Corinthians 3:18).

17. Meeting Jesus
The risen Lord waits to transform us
• John Wesley’s strategy included:
– preaching sanctification in the streets
– people to journey with each other in small groups
(class meetings)
– emphasising the means of grace
• Rediscovering Jesus in the Church

18. Open our eyes, Lord
Come - expect to meet the risen Lord today
• Who moved away? God
or us?
• Come to worship each
Sunday expecting to
meet the risen Lord.
• Jesus waits to meet us in
the power of the Holy
Spirit to transform our
lives.