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Sermon by Rev. Renee LiaBraaten

Let’s get started with a couple questions:  The first question: What are the qualities you look for in a friend?
 
And, question number two: How do you determine if a person is trustworthy?  How do you decide if you can trust someone? 
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​A couple weeks ago, in his sermon, Rev Jerry invited us to think of Jesus’ encounter with the Samaritan woman at the well as a play.  This morning, I would like to expand on this idea and invite us to think of the entire season of Lent as a play or a Netflix Series.  Each Sunday in Lent, our gospel lesson is like another act or episode in the ongoing drama of Jesus’ journey to the cross. And the title of this Lenten play or series is: “To Believe or Not to Believe.” That is the question that is posed in each episode, each act of the play.  And, that is the question we each have to answer over and over in the ongoing drama of our daily lives. 

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I’d like to begin by asking two questions: The first question is this: Why do we come here? Whether you are here in person or online, why have you come? In short, why do people go to church? The second question is this: What’s the difference between loving someone and falling in love with someone? Please take a moment to answer these questions for yourself.

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​As usual, I have a couple questions for you this morning:
What are some things that are invisible like the wind…things that we cannot see, but that we know exist? 
 
For this second question, I’d just like to see a show of hands.  How many of you would say that you have been “born again?”
 
The phrase “born again” has become a sort of code language that divides Christians into two groups. Depending on which group you identify with, the question, “Are you born again?” could mean “Are you saved, like us?”  or “Are you a religious fanatic, like them?”