Retelling the Story of Jesus

WORD 2day: Thursday, 4th week after Easter

May 4, 2023: Acts 13: 13-25; John 13:16-20

Christian faith is an experience of the community - the experience is shared in the community and it is passed on in the community from one generation to the other. Faith is also that experience that builds up the community and makes it what it is. What is experienced by one, becomes an experience of the community and what the community is made of defines what a person's experience would be. We see Jesus today, handing over his task to be continued by the disciples, the task of taking the good news further to the ends of the world. 

Taking the good news to the ends of the world is Evangelisation. One definition of evengelisation that has always been considered highly practical: 'evangelisation is retelling the story of Jesus'. That is exactly what Paul does in the synagogue in the first reading - retelling the story of Jesus from the Old Testament. Yes, tracing the roots of Jesus in the Old Testament, Paul retells the story of Jesus to make people aware how Jesus is the awaited Messiah.

Do we retell the story of Jesus whenever we get an opportunity...from our own background, from our own context, basing on our own experiences and concerns? We are all evangelisers in our own right and duty, every one of us by our very baptism. Let our words and actions, our experiences and concerns, be a retelling of the story of Jesus to the world.