Luke 24:13-35

Summary: To these devastated disciples who had lost all hope that Jesus was the Messiah, Jesus could have revealed himself in a dazzling display of resurrection glory. Instead, he chose to make himself known to them through relatively ordinary means: by explaining the scriptures and in the breaking of bread. Through two millennia of church history, this is how God has continued to reveal himself to weary, anxious, despairing disciples in need of comfort and hope–in the word and in sacrament. Both the scriptures and the Lord’s Supper point us away from our own merits and toward the merits and sufficiency of Christ in his death and resurrection.