Have you ever had a mountaintop experience where you didn't want to leave it?

It was such a spiritual high.

Just wanted to Terry, enjoy it, revel in it.

Peter had that experience on the monot transfiguration.

He says, this is time for a

celebration let's make a booth and we're gonna make a house, little house for

Elijah, little house for Moses, little house for Jesus, and we're all gonna stay

up here and have a Bless Me Party

for the rest of our days.

Isn't it sad that in that moment of transfiguration

where the glory of Christ burst through and God's voice itself is heard from

on high. That the disciples themselves were still thinking strictly in terms of glory and not in terms of suffering.

They still had not come to peace with the mission of Christ. They forgot where they were headed

and they were reluctant to go to Jerusalem. They wanted to stay on the mountain. They didn't

want to be involved in ministry. They didn't have to work out the concerns of the church or the

Ministry of Redemption or a Ministry of Compassion. They wanted religion for what it would do

for them so that they could bask in spiritual joy and delight on this mountain

without any intrusion of duty.

But the purpose of the mountaintop experience for them is the same as the mountaintop experiences

for us to send us out of the church and into the world to be participants in the death and in the humiliation of Christ. Thank you for listening.

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