Feeding the 5000 - Sermon August 2, 2020

Pastor Sylvia brings us the sermon for August 2, 2020 at Bethel Congregational Church UCC.

This week , our focus is on compassion and discipleship. Sermon "snippet": "...maybe Jesus was trying to get them (the disciples) to see that their resources - allied with the power of God - were more than they thought, more than enough. Maybe Jesus was trying to change the attitude that says, “We have nothing but five loaves and two fish.” We tend to look at what we don’t have rather than at what we do. We tend to feel overwhelmed by the problems we face rather than being willing to start with what might seem like inadequate resources and see what God can do with what we bring. “Send the crowds away” so that they can solve their own problems is a common response to the needs around us. Can we hear Jesus saying to us, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat."