Some doubted.

Last Sunday I preached. And as I prepared my sermon I noticed a few words in Matthew 28:16-20 that I had never previously noticed.

You know how you think you know a piece of writing well and then you notice a phrase that you had completely missed in the past? Well, that was me.

So, what did I notice? I noticed the following:-

"When the disciples saw Jesus, they worshipped him. But some doubted."

They worshipped him but some doubted.

Oh man, I had never ever noticed that before.

And I love it. I love the combo of those words. And I love that they appear in the Bible.

They worshipped him. But some doubted.

No 'boom boom'. No drum roll.

It's just quietly mentioned that some doubted.

No drama. No catastrophe. No crisis. Merely a passing mention that some doubted. Like it was as normal as anything that it would be so. Like it is normal to have doubts.

How freeing is that?

But wait there's more.

Jesus doesn't have a melt down. He doesn't freak out.

He just tells them all to get off their butts and go tell people about him.

And that is the other part of the reading that I love.

Jesus doesn't get upset or make a fuss but he doesn't give the disciples an 'opt out' clause either.

They are all told to get 'on their bikes' and go tell people about Jesus and what he means to them.

It's totally fine to have doubts but that doesn't give us a reason to be inactive or passive in terms of being involved in Mission. I like that.

Some doubted but they were still called to get off their butts, 'get on their bikes' and do all they could to show the love of Jesus to others.

Yeh! Cool. So very cool.