Ancient Paths: “Suffered Under Pontius Pilate, Was Crucified, Died, and Was Buried” - Jarrod McKenna - 2nd March 2025

CHRIST SUFFERED. BUT WHY?

💧 A creed without living water is as cruel as an empty bottle to the thirsty.

The Apostles’ Creed isn’t a checklist of beliefs—it’s a container meant to carry the radical, liberating story of Jesus.

📖 “Suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, and was buried.”

Early Christians weren’t memorising doctrine—they were declaring that Jesus stood with the suffering, exposed systems of oppression, and embodied a kind of suffering that ends all suffering.

🙅‍♂️ The cross isn’t divine vengeance—it’s divine solidarity.
 🕊️ Jesus takes shame so we can stand beside the shamed.
 🤝 The gospel invites us not to avoid pain but to enter it with love, standing with those the world tries to crucify.

So we ask:
 💭 Are our creeds leaking living water?
 💭 Or are they holding space for justice, mercy, and radical love?

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We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of these lands, the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the Eastern Kulin Nation and we pay our respect to their Elders past, present and emerging.

Sovereignty was never ceded.

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