Question: The average person gets this surprise eight times per year. What is it?
Answer: Receiving a package with an online purchase they’ve forgotten about!
Person 1: I’m pretty frustrated because I ordered some disposable lenses and got an empty box.
Person 2: That’s strange. Did you contact the company to find out what happened?
Person 1: Yeah, they said I must have selected contactless delivery!
Seriously though… Like a package we ordered for ourselves and then forgot about, the Kingdom of God is both personal and unpredictable. Jesus shows us this in how He leaves the 99 to seek out the one lost sheep. At the same time, He rarely behaves the way we expect. We’ll explore this idea today and next week in a two-part sermon from Pastor Jill called “The Good News of God is for the Whole Person.” It’s the next in our series “The Kingdom of God.”