My wife, Jenny, has just a few shows that she records and does not miss. One of these is the show “Survivor,” a “reality” game show in which people are “marooned” on an island where they compete for a million dollars at the end of the season. It’s now in its 44th season. The show uses an elimination system, where contestants in teams compete in a variety of challenges, and then are made to vote off other tribe members until only one contestant remains and becomes the "Sole Survivor."
Why is Survivor so popular? One reason, I think, is that in some ways “Survivor” has become a study of our culture. Anymore, it seems like the goal in life is to just survive, to get by - trying our hardest to stay afloat without getting voted off the island.
What is life? A cynic would say that life is a series of the struggle of sin, relational issues, the feeling of being overwhelmed, not knowing if our lives truly matter in this world or not. But what if God intended for us to go deeper than just merely surviving? What if there was something MORE for us to experience?
This is what we read in the last part of Luke’s Gospe l- it’s what happens to a group of disciples who seem to have lost their way. Even having been enlightened in regard to the resurrection, it took one more encounter with Jesus for them to catch what the resurrection was supposed to mean for them. They needed to see what it meant to truly be resurrection people.
