Each one of us is on pilgrimage — a journey of faith that leads us closer to the God we love day by day. Some of us received the faith

This text comes from the Gospel of John, 6:53, a text I never preached on as a Presbyterian minister. In fact, I pretty much avoided John 6 during my fifteen-plus years in Protestant ministry because I was uncomfortable with this very question: symbolic or literal.

But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood,  a holy nation, God’s own people,  that you may declare the wonderful deeds of him  who called you out of darkness