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Jesus asks a quiet question that cuts through every loud moment of our lives: who we really believe he is. We wrestle with the temptation to admire Jesus from a safe distance and instead choose to answer him with surrender that reshapes our identity and our priorities. 
• why “Who do you say that I am?” cannot be answered by anyone else 
• Caesarea Philippi as a picture of competing voices and false gods 
• how flattering answers can still reduce Jesus 
• why a teacher or reformer is not enough when we face sin and death 
• Peter’s confession as the hinge of the Gospel and a move from knowing about God to knowing God 
• how Jesus names Peter and how identity is received through following Christ 
• Shebna’s monument as a warning about self-made legacy 
• the tomb or the temple as a daily examination of conscience 
• Eucharist as the moment the question becomes personal again 

So when you come forward today, do not receive communion merely out of habit. Come to him. And somehow, between your pew and this altar, give him your answer.

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