Release

Our choice of actions, both big and small, have a cascading impact on others, spreading outward like ripples on a pond. This visual metaphor emphasizes the power we have to create change in our communities through our choices and interactions with others. Every act of kindness and compassion, or negativity and hate, can have far-reaching consequences.

In this series, we explore the beginnings of Jesus’ ministry in the Gospel of Luke. What can we learn from the choices that Jesus and those around him made? What difference did the “ripples” of those choices make both then and now? As followers of Jesus, how will the “ripples” of our choices make a difference on our campus, in our community, and around our world?

In this sermon, Pastor Harold uses inspiration for a sermon by Martin Luther King, Jr to see how Jesus taught his disciples to release the old way of “an eye for an eye” and instead practice a new way of living, “love your enemies, do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return.”