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Motto: Unexpected John 1:1928 (The Testimony of John the Baptist) Meinolf: Welcome to our go4peace impulse on the second day of the year. It is Saturday, January 2nd, 2021. I hope you had a good New Years Day. On this first working day of the year, John the Baptist is with us again. In the first chapter of John s Gospel (Jn 1:1928), Pharisees and Levites ask John who he actually is: Who are you He confessed, and did not deny, but confessed, I am not the Christ. And they asked him, What then Are you Elijah He said, I am not. Are you the Prophet And he answered, No. (Jn 1, 1921) And later he said: I am the voice of one crying out in the wilderness, Make straight the way of the Lord, as the prophet Isaiah said. (Jn 1:23) It is again about this longing of God. Jesus doesnt only want to arrive with us on Christmas, on December 25th and 26th. , he actually wants to be born again and again in our midst and be with us. That s his burning dream The question
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