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Thank you for engaging with
the homily by Pastor Chill Will from

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Chapel Hill.

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I hope this message encourages
you, challenges you and moves you

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to go deeper in your faith and
enrich how you love God and love

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your neighbor in your day to
day life.

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Just a reminder.

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Like the scriptures and
Gospels themselves, this homily was

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written for a particular
community in a particular context,

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time in history.

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And yet, like our sacred
texts, I hope that these words hold

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timeless truths about God's
unconditional love and grace.

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We hope these words speak to
you in a meaningful way.

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The Holy Gospel According to
John after he appeared to his followers

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in Jerusalem, Jesus showed
himself again to the disciples by

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the Sea of Tiberias.

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And he showed himself in this way.

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Gathered there together was
Simon Peter, Thomas called the twin

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Nathanael of Cana in Galilee,
the sons of Zebedee, two others of

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his disciples.

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Simon Peter said to them, I am
going fishing.

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They said to him, we will go
with you.

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They went out and got into the
boat, but that night they caught

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nothing.

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Just after daybreak, Jesus
stood on the beach.

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But the disciples did not know
that it was Jesus.

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Jesus said to them, children,
you have no fish, have you?

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They answered, no.

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He said to them, cast the net
on the right side of the boat and

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you will find some.

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So they cast it, and now they
were not able to haul it in because

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there were so many fish.

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The disciple whom Jesus loved
said to Peter, it is the Lord.

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Simon Peter heard that it was
the Lord.

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He put on some clothes, for he
was naked, and jumped into the boat,

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jumped into the sea.

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But the other disciples came
in the boat dragging the net full

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of fish, for they were not far
from the land, only about 100 yards

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off.

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When they had gone ashore,
they saw a charcoal fire there with

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fish on it and bread.

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Jesus said to them, bring some
of the fish that you just caught.

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Simon Peter went aboard and
hauled the net ashore full of large

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fish, 153 of them.

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And though there were so many,
the net was not torn.

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Jesus said to them, come and
have breakfast now.

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None of the disciples dared to
ask, who are you?

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Because they knew it was the Lord.

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Jesus came and took the bread
and gave it to them and did the same

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with the fish.

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This was now the third time
that Jesus appeared to the disciples

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after he was raised from the dead.

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When they had finished
breakfast, he said to Simon Peter,

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simon, son of John, do you
love me more than these?

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Said to him, yes, Lord, you
know that I love you.

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Jesus said to him, feed my lambs.

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The second time, he said to
him, simon, son of John, do you love

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me?

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He said to him, yes, Lord, you
know that I love you.

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Jesus said to him, tend my sheep.

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Said to him the third time,
simon, son of John, do you love me?

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Peter felt hurt because he
said to him the third time, do you

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love me?

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And he said to him, lord, you
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You know that I love you.

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Jesus said to him, feed my sheep.

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Very truly, I tell you, when
you were younger, you used to fasten

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your own belt and to go
wherever you wished.

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But when you grow old, you
will stretch out your hands and someone

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will fasten a belt around you
and take you where you do not wish

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to go.

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Said this to indicate the kind
of death by which he would glorify

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God.

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After this, he said to him,
follow me.

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The gospel of the Lord may be
seated in the name of the Father

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and the Son and the Holy Spirit.

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So we're going to do a quick
turn and talk.

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We do this from time to time.

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I want you to share with your
neighbor, whoever you're sitting

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around, and share.

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What was the first movie you
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Movie theater.

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Turn and talk.

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Okay, I'm going to pull you
back in those here and online.

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Perhaps online.

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You thought of yours as well.

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Popcorn for me?

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Just what are some of the movies?

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Bambi or Bambi over here.

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The person I talked to.

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Casablanca.

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Nice.

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Yeah.

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Others?

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Wizard of Oz classics.

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There's Super Mario.

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That was your first.

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Yes.

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I love that.

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Yeah.

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From Casablanca to Super
Mario, there you go.

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Well, believe it or not, mine,
star New hope.

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As a five year old, 1977, as a
kid and as an adult who has a hard

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time sitting still, my
attention and imagination were held

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captive through the entire movie.

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And I've been a fan of that
franchise ever since.

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And so today I thought about
how I could preach a whole sermon

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on how the titles of the
original Star wars trilogy follow

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the story of Christ.

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In the birth and the coming of
Christ, we are given a new hope.

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And then with his passion and
crucifixion, the Empire strikes back.

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But on Easter, the saga
continues with the return of the

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rabbi.

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I could also do a whole sermon
on the prequel trilogy and talk about

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how the Force, once a mystic
force available to everyone, was

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reduced to biological
determinism with meta chlorines and

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blood tests.

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And how the choice around fear
and control and power can often lead

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to the path of the dark side.

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Or maybe I could do a whole
sermon on the Disney sequel trilogy

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about how the force does
indeed awaken within Any of us with

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the threat and lust and quest
of Imperial power to rule the galaxy.

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And when the dark side emerges
in our midst, then a force must indeed

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awaken.

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Or I thought about how I could
preach about the downfall of the

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Jedi organized religion when
they became too fundamentalist around

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their denial of attachments
and became bedfellows with the Republic

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and cloning a whole army.

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Lose any of y'all.

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Yeah, well, have no fear.

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Over the next three hours I
will unpack all of that and explain

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the details across 12 Star
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Well, I guess we do have a lot
to do today, right?

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Maybe I'll pump the brakes a
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Maybe a little.

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As I mentioned, the first
movie I remember seeing in the theater

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was Star A New Hope in 1977.

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It was the first time I
remember my imagination being awakened

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to the possibilities of both
science fiction adventures not only

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in a galaxy far, far away, but
maybe this could happen in our solar

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system too.

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Even, maybe even I could be
Luke Skywalker.

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And I was Luke Skywalker when
I played with my Star wars action

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figures or when I was
pretending the naked wrapping paper

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cardboard tube was a lightsaber.

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Part of my infatuation with
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being both sci fi
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while also proposing that this
was an ancient story that happened

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a long time ago, incorporating
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Lasers and robots and
spaceships intermingled with a powerful

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mystical force that binds all
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That's an adventure.

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That's something I want to be
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Could I too be force sensitive
in case I need to rebel and fight

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against an oppressive evil empire?

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Unapologetically, this is
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daily.

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One of my favorite scenes in
all of Star wars, in the original

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movie A New Hope is Luke
Skywalker is having his first training

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session with a lightsaber with
Obi Wan Kenobi on the Millennium

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Falcon and things aren't going
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Using or being one with the
Force evidently has a big learning

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curve.

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In walks agnostic skeptic and
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He sees what's going on and
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he chuckles to himself.

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Luke turns and asks him, you
don't believe in the Force, do you?

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Han responds, kid, I've flown
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other.

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I've seen a lot of strange
stuff, but I've never seen anything

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to make me believe that
there's an all powerful force controlling

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everything.

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There's no mystical energy
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to Obi Wan, he grins almost to communicate.

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We'll see.

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We'll see.

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The scruffy scoundrel Han Solo
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and moments throughout Star Wars.

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At one point it looks like
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his friends and taking his
money reward and just thinking of

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himself.

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But even in the midst of that,
he turns to Luke and says, may the

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Force be with you.

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And then later on he comes
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friends defeat and blow up the
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Later on, in another tension
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Empire will win the day,
Princess Leia confesses her love

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to him and the Empire strikes
back, she says, I love you.

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And he responds, I know.

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And as years later in the
movie the Force Awakens, when new

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characters emerge in the story
and they've heard all the legends

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and the stories and the
adventures of Luke Skywalker and

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his small band of rebels and
they ask Han, is this true?

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Then Han confesses, all true.

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All of it.

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There seems to be a
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A hero's journey, a redemptive ark.

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Over the years I've found ways
hard to believe, but it's true, to

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connect and overlap.

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The things that I geek out on
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pastor.

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As someone who I feel is
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We've had God Loves geeks,
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I've done panels and
discussions at Comic Cons on how

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our faith and what we geek out
on share similar questions and themes

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and redemption arcs.

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And I'm currently helping
curate and moderate a podcast called

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Systematic Geekology.

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We are the priest to the
geeks, helping moderate and curate

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those things we geek out on,
wanting to go deeper into the questions

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of our faith and life.

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We are geekologists.

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Think of it as being similar
to an archaeologist or a geologist,

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studying and learning and
going beneath the surface to discover

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deeper questions and themes.

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We all do it.

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We all of us are geekologists.

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From the books we read to the
TV shows we watch, or maybe it's

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food or stoplights or Disney
or comic book superheroes, we all

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geek out on something and we
have deep meaning and resonance with

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those things we geek out on.

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Perhaps because they are
tapping into a larger story arc,

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a divine story that has a
redemption arc that we are all a

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part of.

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Geek culture, pop culture
often ask similar big philosophical

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and theological questions,
even if they aren't fully aware of

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it.

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They explore a deeper, larger
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What we long for, what we hope for.

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And I'll also confess that
just like religion and any institutions

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that humans are a part of,
there is still the problem of toxic

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fandom and fundamentalism
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We call it fandimentalism.

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Humans are going to human no
matter what they are a part of and

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no matter what they are a fan
of or geek out on.

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But like with things like
faith and science and justice issues

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and how we do community
together, there is a way, this is

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the way to have healthy, deep
conversations within these things

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that resonate with us and that
mean so much to us as we process

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what it means to be humans
created in the image of God.

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So let's shift over and be
geekologists with our gospel story

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for today.

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This is a post resurrection story.

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At the end of John's Gospel,
the disciples are still grieving

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and confused and skeptical and
agnostic about what has happened

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after Jesus resurrection.

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They have been one side of
Israel and Galilee to the next and

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they've seen a lot of strange stuff.

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But they aren't sure sure if
there is any strange mystical force

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helping guide their destiny.

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So what do they do?

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They go back to what they think.

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They know what they do best.

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They go back to fishing and
they're still not very good at it.

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And guess who shows up?

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Maybe Jesus has a force.

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Ghost.

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No, he actually eats with them
and proves that he's not some disembodied

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spirit.

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He's with them in the flesh,
bodily form.

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And then there's this other
miracle of catching fish to remind

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the disciples who is meeting
with them on the beach, meeting them

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wherever they are.

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And then there is another meal
with bread and fish.

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Of course, it's with those
objects and with what's going on

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in that practice that they
remember again who their rabbi is

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and what he has done, what he
is doing, what he promises to do.

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There's an ongoing
transformation happening.

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There's an ongoing hero's
journey taking place.

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There's an ongoing redemption arc.

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And if that's not clear, the
risen Christ pulls Peter aside and

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asks him some important question.

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Jesus asked him three times,
mirroring the three times Peter denied

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Jesus, do you love me?

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And it's not just I know, it's
Lord, you know.

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Yes, indeed he does.

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But it's in this articulation
of, of luring and helping and challenging

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Peter to articulate and
confess out loud his love for Jesus

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that it moves him from fish,
sheep, from going fishing, shepherding

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a community that is shaped by
a crucified and risen Christ.

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Peter had his hero's journey
and redemption ark.

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And we will, too, no matter
what seashore we find ourselves on,

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no matter what skepticism or
questions or agnosticism we wrestle

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with.

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So may the Force be with you.

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And you have permission to be
geekologists, not just on Sunday,

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but every day of the week.

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Yesterday, a friend reminded
me or pointed out to me something

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that I hadn't noticed before.

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And so, even as an elder and
experienced geekologist, I'm still

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learning new things about Star
wars and other things.

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He said, notice that before
the Jedi crosses over to be one with

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the Force, they say, may the
Force be with you.

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Acknowledging that there's
still kind of this element of uncertainty,

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like, maybe it'll happen,
maybe it won't.

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We'll see.

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But when they cross over to be
one with a Force, they have this

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calling.

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To those who are still in
their pilgrimage.

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They say, and remember, the
Force is with you always.

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Yes, that's the promise.

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As we continue to remember the
Christ, as we gather around this

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table to remember his body and
blood given and shed for you, the

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risen Christ meets us wherever
we are and says, remember, I am with

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you.

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I love you.

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Your redemption ark will come
to completion always.

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Amen.

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Thank you for listening.

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If there is anything that
stood out.

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For you, or if you have a
question or.

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Or you just want to have a
conversation, you are always free

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to reach out and contact us.

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And remember you are not alone
and that you are loved with a love

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stronger than death.