Everyone needs a platform for making friends with the missing.
I preach from a platform every Sunday, but it's not a good place for relationship.
Talking to the missing requires a venue, a location, or a platform.
In John, Jesus' platforms were
Family relationships in a fishing business- John 1
Water Well- John 4
Healing pool- John 5
Business to buy bread for a mountain full of people- John 6
Cemetery- John 11
Beach- John 21
By extension, our platforms can be the natural places of life where we run into the same missing people every day.
Family relationships
Coffee Shop, Starbucks, Panera Bread. A "Third place" in between home and work.
Hospital
Business
Funeral
Beach
I'm glad to know our physical platform will be enlarging. That should help to diminish my fears of you falling off the edge during communion.
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