I Am the Way: Confirmation, Belonging, and Hope

``There's room for your doubts. There's room for your personality, your story, your gifts. There's room for you even when you're not sure where you fit. Confirmants, hear this clearly. You don't have to become someone else to belong to Jesus. You don't have to pretend. You don't have to have a perfect faith. There's room for it. And church, this is our call as well, to be a community where there is always more room. [00:23:26] (50 seconds)  #BelongAsYouAre

He hands out himself. He gives us a relationship. He offers us a presence and a promise. Then he says this, in my father's house, there are many dwelling places. That's a pretty neat image if you rest with it for a little bit. Not because it's heaven's floor plan necessarily, but because it's all about belonging. It's Jesus saying to you, there's room for you. There's room for your questions. [00:22:43] (43 seconds)  #ManyDwellingPlaces

Now his disciples, like us, they want clarity. They want a plan. They want a map with a big red arrow that says, you are right here. And then our dear friend Thomas finally blurts out what everyone else is thinking. Lord, we don't know where you're going. How can we possibly know the way? And Jesus answers with something that is not a map at all. I am the way. I am the truth. I am the life. [00:21:20] (44 seconds)  #IAmTheWay

Because Jesus is the way. Because there is room for you. Because God is already at work in you. Because the spirit is going to keep nudging you forward. And because this community of faith will keep surrounding you with love. And because the one who calls you is faithful and will never let you go. [00:28:58] (25 seconds)  #YouAreNeverAlone