Luke 24:32 They asked each other, "Were not our hearts burning within us while he talked with us on the road and opened the Scripture to us?"
Blackaby uses this verse to point out that although the living, breathing Jesus does not walk among us today, spending time in the Word can give us that same connection to the Heavenly Father. However, it must be more than a mechanical, gotta' get this read exercise. Time in the Word must be earnest, purposeful, distraction-free and consistent.
What I gleaned from the the 24th chapter of Luke was "two of them (followers of Christ) were talking about everything that had happened. As they talked and discussed these things with each other, Jesus himself came up and walked along with them."
I did not do an exhaustive search, but if memory serves me correctly, none of Jesus' post-crucifixion appearances happened to an individual who was alone. Jesus appeared to groups of believers who were gathered together. They were together praying, discussing, fellowshipping.
An hour of small group on Sunday mornings with time constraints and prescribed lesson plans do not allow for that type of spirit-led, seeker types of conversations. I wonder how many Jesus visits are lost each week because of our current church design.
Where did we lose that type of church structure? Has it ever existed outside of the 1st century church? Could something like this be a grassroots movement within a megachurch?
Were it not for my breakfast conversations with my father, I would have few or no "road to Emmaus conversations."
Interesting how time with God will often lead to more questions than answers.
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