Worship - 3 May 2026

Summary Of This Week's Theme

It isn’t easy to find illustrations that speak across generations, especially where music is concerned. For example, a line from an old song came to mind: “Who’s going to drive you home tonight?” It’s a simple question, but it lingers. Sometimes we need someone else to guide us - especially when we’re lost, uncertain, or not fit to make the journey alone. Take a taxi!

That question opens a way into John 14. “In my Father’s house are many dwelling places” is often heard at funerals, but it is not only about the life to come. It is about life now. Teresa of Ávila, in The Interior Castle, understood these “many dwellings” as the soul’s capacity for encounter with God. The dwelling place is not distant or abstract - it is the living space within us where God meets us - here and now.

It is tempting to read this passage with easy certainty: we know where Jesus is going, and we know the way. But Thomas’ question - “We do not know the way” - rings true. It speaks honestly to the confusion and longing we still experience. We search for peace, yet often find ourselves on the wrong roads.

Jesus’ concern, on the night before his death, was not simply to prepare a future home, but to prepare his disciples for a living relationship with God that would sustain them. He breathed his Spirit into them so that they might become guides for others - people who know the way, not perfectly, but faithfully.

And more than that, he entrusted them with a task: “the one who believes in me will also do the works that I do, and greater works than these.” Faith is not static. Each generation is called to build upon what has been given - to embody Christ’s compassion in new ways.

So the Church is meant to be a house with many dwelling places: a community where people find refuge, welcome, and love. Not suspicion or exclusion, but open doors and open hearts.

The call of this passage is simple but demanding: to trust rather than demand certainty, to follow Christ together rather than stand apart, and to focus not on what we gain, but on what we give.

Because, in truth, we all need someone (a spiritual taxi?) to drive us home. And Christ does - through his presence, his Spirit, and through one another. “Trust in God. Trust also in me.”