{"id":3366,"date":"2015-03-01T13:00:17","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T18:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/roadsfromemmaus\/?p=3366"},"modified":"2015-03-01T13:04:44","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T18:04:44","slug":"lenten-evangelism-5-come-and-see-the-sunday-of-orthodoxy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ancientfaith.com\/asd\/2015\/03\/01\/lenten-evangelism-5-come-and-see-the-sunday-of-orthodoxy\/","title":{"rendered":"Lenten Evangelism #5: “Come and See” (The Sunday of Orthodoxy)"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Philip,
Philip, Nathanael and Jesus<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nSunday of Orthodoxy, March 1, 2015
\nRev. Fr. Andrew Stephen Damick<\/i><\/p>\n

In the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, one God. Amen.<\/p>\n

“P<\/span>hilip said to him, ‘Come and see.'”<\/p>\n

This phrase, which we hear in today\u2019s Gospel<\/a>, has come to be something of an evangelistic watchword among English-speaking Orthodox Christians. \u201cCome and see.\u201d It is used especially with the sense that there is something here in the Orthodox Church that is worth looking at.<\/p>\n

And of course when you enter into an Orthodox church, there is a lot to look at\u2014icons, architecture, candles, vigil lamps, vestments, and so on. And there is much to hear and smell and touch and taste. Orthodoxy is a sensory experience that really is unrivaled among Christians. There are other kinds of churches that have some of these elements, and there are some that have other things to fill the senses, such as loud music and flashy light shows, but there really isn\u2019t anything in Christianity like the aesthetic experience of Orthodox Christianity.<\/p>\n

Nothing looks like an Orthodox church. Nothing sounds like an Orthodox church. Nothing smells like an Orthodox church. And especially here in the cultural West, most people have no idea what those experiences are like. They\u2019ve mostly never even heard of us. Many fewer still have actually walked into one of our churches.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s perfectly understandable that, when we are doing our evangelism, we may say to someone \u201cCome and see,\u201d and then follow that invitation with a description of what you\u2019ll see here and experience here with all your senses.<\/p>\n

And since this is the Sunday of Orthodoxy, where we celebrate the restoration of icons to our churches, we may be particularly likely today to say \u201cCome and see,\u201d while we are thinking about iconography in the back of our heads. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s anything wrong with talking about our church in those terms. <\/p>\n

But I do think there\u2019s something wrong if we leave it there. Why?<\/p>\n

First, I want you to imagine that we are a brand-new mission parish. Maybe we\u2019re worshiping in a store-front space. There are no icons on the walls. There is no iconostasis. We might have a couple of lecterns instead with icons on them. Imagine also that we have no trained musicians. We find a couple people with just sort of okay voices who maybe have no training in Orthodox music. All they can manage is a repetitive, maybe even atonal chanting that is tough to listen to for a long time. And so on. Imagine everything in a really basic, bare-bones fashion, maybe even somewhat painful to deal with in one way or another.<\/p>\n

Here in Emmaus, we enjoy much more than all that, but that is a real situation that many parishes face in some of those ways or perhaps even all those ways. Is it likely that people will advertise that parish by saying, \u201cCome and see\u201d? Not, really. But is that still Orthodoxy? Yes.<\/p>\n

Of course it would not be an ideal situation, and we would work to rectify it, but it would still be authentically part of the Orthodox Church. Nonetheless, this little thought experiment reveals the problem with our making the invitation to \u201cCome and see\u201d about aesthetic experience. It is not that those aesthetics are wrong or even unnecessary\u2014they are both right and properly part of the Orthodox faith\u2014but they place the emphasis on the wrong place.<\/p>\n

To understand this, we need to look again at what is meant by the invitation to \u201cCome and see\u201d when it is first given in the Gospel. These words are uttered by Philip when he is speaking to Nathanael. Let\u2019s listen to this passage again:<\/p>\n

\u201cPhilip found Nathanael, and said to him, \u2018We have found Him of Whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.\u2019 Nathanael said to him, \u2018Can anything good come out of Nazareth?\u2019 Philip said to him, \u2018Come and see.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

So Philip is inviting Nathanael to come and have a look at Jesus, to see for himself whether \u201canything good [can] come out of Nazareth.\u201d Then Nathanael goes with Philip to meet Jesus.<\/p>\n

But the phrase also appears earlier in the chapter, prior to our reading appointed for today. In this section (John 1:38-39), which is shortly before today\u2019s reading, Jesus is asked by some of the disciples of John the Baptist where He is living, and Jesus responds to them, \u201cCome and see.\u201d And it says that they went and saw and then stayed with Him for a day.<\/p>\n

So what\u2019s going on here? In neither case is this phrase \u201cCome and see\u201d connected to having an aesthetic experience. Both are a response to curiosity\u2014in the earlier case, the curiosity of John\u2019s disciples as to where Jesus was staying and in the latter case, it is in response to Nathanael\u2019s sarcastic question as to whether anything good could come out of Nazareth, which was clearly \u201cthe wrong side of town.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both both ultimately have the same object. Both times \u201cCome and see\u201d is said, the purpose is the same. What is it that these people are being invited to \u201ccome and see\u201d? It is not icons or architecture or chanting or incense or any kind of spectacle or aesthetic experience.<\/p>\n

They are being invited to have an encounter with Jesus.<\/p>\n

This is the heart of our Gospel, the heart of the good news that we preach to the nations and not just to the nations but to our nation, to our neighborhood, to our own family and our friends. We preach Jesus. We invite people to \u201ccome and see\u201d Jesus.<\/p>\n

If in our preaching we focus on all these things about Orthodoxy that are good and normative but we never mention their actual purpose, then we are not preaching the good news. The good news is not that we have beautiful churches and iconography and chanting and so on. That is not the good news.<\/p>\n

The good news is that God became man, lived as one of us, died as one of us, and then rose from the dead to bring us all into resurrection with Him. That is the good news.<\/p>\n

And that is what the iconography preaches, too. And the chanting. And the incense. And so on and on.<\/p>\n

When we say \u201ccome and see,\u201d it is because we want people to have the encounter with Jesus that we have had. We have come and seen Him. We have found \u201cHim of Whom Moses in the Law and also the Prophets wrote, Jesus of Nazareth, the son of Joseph.\u201d This is the One Whom we have come to see. And this is the One Whom we have invited the world to come and see.<\/p>\n

This is good news. This is evangelism. This is the preaching of the Gospel to every creature on earth, shouting it not just from the rooftops but into the whole of the cosmos\u2014that Jesus Christ has come to earth to rescue all of mankind and indeed the whole world from the bondage of sin and corruption and death.<\/p>\n

Do you believe that? Do you really believe it? Then of course you will be telling people to \u201ccome and see.\u201d If you really believe that\u2014and I hope that you do\u2014then when you tell people all about our beautiful icons and singing and so on, you will tell them why it is all so beautiful. It is because all these things together preach one message: Come and see Jesus Christ, the Son of God and the Saviour of the world.<\/p>\n

To Him therefore be all glory, honor and worship, with His Father and the Holy Spirit, now and ever, and unto ages of ages. Amen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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