While it isn’t explicit, this Gospel text hints at something I have longed believed. Sin is the result of fear. Our sinful actions, inaction, and attitudes are ways in which we try to cope with a variety of fears. Jesus enters the locked room of our fear with the offer of peace. While peace is not the same thing as courage, it is the acceptance that the risen Christ is proof that God is ultimately up to something good for us and the world and that we need not be afraid. The acceptance of that gift of Easter peace opens the possibility for forgiveness. It is the Spirit that brings this peace to us. It then becomes our mission to be ministers of this peace to others. Pentecost begins with fear and ends with forgiveness.
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