GAITHERSBURG HELP FOOD DRIVE:
Pathways will be collecting non-perishable canned goods during the month of February.

The following items are needed:
Boxes of cereal that are not high in sugar
1 or 2-lb bags of rice
Dried or canned kidney or black beans
Fortified pastas
Spaghetti
Spaghetti sauce in plastic jars
Creamy peanut butter
Canned tuna or chicken
Canned corn or green beans
Plastic jars of grape jam

Please do not to bring in expired foods. We do not give any expired food, no matter how recently so, to our clients. Some people think food drives are a good occasion to clean out their pantries. We respect our clients, so we want them to have food that will last.

Thank You Dr. Larry!
Greet Dr. Larry Eubanks in the Gathering Area TODAY following this morning's worship service. Let's take this time to show him our appreciation for being an interim preacher while we awaited the announcement of our new senior pastor.

SAVE THE DATE: There will be an installation service on Sunday, March 3 during the morning worship service. Reverend Jonathan Der will be installed as the new Senior Pastor of Pathways Baptist Church. We look forward to the next new chapter that God will write with us. We also look forward to serving you as we serve our Great Lord and Savior together in this place and our community.

Message: "That Time Jesus and His Disciples Went to a Wedding"
Dr. Larry Eubanks, Interim Preacher
Scripture: John 2:1-11

John 2:1-11

1 On the third day a wedding took place at Cana in Galilee. Jesus’ mother was there,
2 and Jesus and his disciples had also been invited to the wedding.
3 When the wine was gone, Jesus’ mother said to him, “They have no more wine.”
4 “Woman, why do you involve me?” Jesus replied. “My hour has not yet come.”
5 His mother said to the servants, “Do whatever he tells you.”
6 Nearby stood six stone water jars, the kind used by the Jews for ceremonial washing, each holding from twenty to thirty gallons.
7 Jesus said to the servants, “Fill the jars with water”; so they filled them to the brim.
8 Then he told them, “Now draw some out and take it to the master of the banquet.”
They did so,
9 and the master of the banquet tasted the water that had been turned into wine. He did not realize where it had come from, though the servants who had drawn the water knew. Then he called the bridegroom aside
10 and said, “Everyone brings out the choice wine first and then the cheaper wine after the guests have had too much to drink; but you have saved the best till now.”
11 What Jesus did here in Cana of Galilee was the first of the signs through which he revealed his glory; and his disciples believed in him.

Jesus' Parables:
If you’re going to understand Jesus’ use of parables, you have to understand the subversive nature of the parables he told, how Jesus told parables not merely to explain or illustrate complex spiritual concepts but to get by your defenses so he can challenge your most cherished beliefs, assumptions, and prejudices, the things that make up your worldview.

Jesus' Parables are more than just stories:
-Jesus is telling a story about someone else, something that happened to someone else. More to the point, the story isn’t about you.
-You’re all relaxed because the story isn’t about you. Your defenses are down. Until, when it’s too late, you find out it is about you.
-Jesus never announced his parables.

The story of the Wedding
-What did Jesus have to do with the shortage of wine at the wedding?
-What is the significance of the 6 jars of water?
-What is the significance of the number 7 in the Bible?

The Word became, not a book, but flesh, and “in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell.”
-Colossians 1:19

Your best days will always be behind you if that’s the only place you ever look.

Jesus says, “Look, the best is yet to come, but you’ve got to get your nose out of your book and set your eyes on me, the author and fulfiller of the faith.”

Because Truth, the best truth, the truest truth, the deepest truth, can only be found in a relationship with a real person.

John tells us that The Word, Truth, can’t be contained in a book. The Word is a Person, and if you want to know the Truth of that Person, you have to have a relationship with that Person.

And it’s in relationship with that Word who is a Person that you may just learn something about yourself and about who you were created to be, and can still be in Christ.

Benediction:

"And this is eternal life, that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent."
-John 17:3

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