Abundant Life

What does it mean to live an abundant life? 

We may have many different answers to that question. For some of us having an abundant life means gathering stuff, getting the best toys, the biggest house, the fastest car, the newest gadgets. For others, an abundant life has to do with people and relationships, children, family, and friends. Others may define abundance in terms of security and safety, that sense of comfort in knowing they are out of harm's way. 

Jesus, in our scripture reading for this Sunday, promises abundance for his followers when he says that he "came that they may have life, and have it abundantly." (NRSV). He prefaces those words with a picture of a shepherd and sheep and then describes himself as the gate to the sheep fold. 

Jesus uses word pictures to describe what that life is like, pictures of a shepherd, and a gate, 

Join us this Sunday, as we consider Jesus words and the abundant life he offers today, here and now.