The Refuge of Questions
Given at the Questions of Jesus Clergy Retreat for the Episcopal Church in Minnesota
What are you looking for?
This is the question Jesus asks us in our gospel lesson today.
In the gospels, Jesus asks 307 questions and only answers 3.
That tells us that asking questions is a core practice of his leadership, of his ministry, of the way he shepherds us as disciples.
We’ll spend time together throughout this retreat listening to Jesus ask us questions, and discovering what answers rise within us—or maybe no answers at all.
Maybe we’ll leave our time together with more questions than we started with. That might be a very good thing.
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