#john6:67

[anastpaul]

One Minute Reflection - 11 May - "Do you want to leave me too?”.

One Minute Reflection – 11 May – “Do you want to leave me too?”.

One Minute Reflection – 11 May – Saturday of the Third Week Easter, C, Gospel: John 6:60–69

“Do you want to leave me too?”...John 6:67

REFLECTION– “Jesus confronts His listeners, including His disciples, with an even more merciless decision, in the light of His promise of the Eucharist.   Because He refuses to back away, in the slightest, from His statements about the Eucharist, these words seems…

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[essentialpastor]

Finally, in John 6:67, Jesus turns to His twelve hand-picked disciples and asks them the question, “Do you also want to go away?” It’s an interesting question because Jesus chose or elected the Twelve...Calvinists should truly examine John 6:67 because it doesn’t lend credence to their convictions about God and man in salvation. Here we see the divine election doesn’t eliminate the possibility of departing from Christ or falling away from the gospel. The Twelve were chosen by Jesus, yet Jesus gives them an option to depart. If Jesus handpicks them, yet says they can leave, why do Calvinists insist that modern-day disciples, the elect, cannot fall away from Christ or depart from the faith if they too, are elected by God?

Deidre Richardson, “Lydia’s Heart: The Case for Prevenient Grace,” pp. 302-303