For the 5th Sunday of Easter, Rev. Cari tried an experiment. She preached on two texts (for the price of one!). Acts 8:26-40, which is a story, and John 15:1-8, which is a discourse.

She took the one (the story of the Ethiopian eunuch) and nested it inside the vocabulary of the other (John’s meditation in the mouth of Jesus on the vine and the branches).

How do you know you belong? That’s the question.