"Following a Revolutionary"

Here's an instant replay of what happened in worship:

We heard how Jesus entered Jerusalem on the back of a donkey in Matt. 21:1-11, with the people greeting him as if he were a king.
We watched the children parade around the room waving palm branches while we sang "Hosanna."
We thought about how the people of Jerusalem got it wrong. They thought Jesus was the revolutionary who would overthrow the Romans and take back Jerusalem. When they discovered that he had no military aspirations, they turned on him and demanded his crucifixion. What does it mean to follow a revolutionary who only wants to go where people are hurting, into the dark and painful places?
We learned about the prophet Jeremiah, how God called him to tell the Israelites they were messing up and what the consequences would be. The people hated Jeremiah for that. He cried out to God that he didn't want to be a prophet anymore, and maybe he would just close his mouth and not speak God's words anymore. "But," he said, "if I do that, Your words will burn inside me like a fire. I cannot hold them in." God's call is often like a fire within us, too. As we've been talking about evangelism, we have to ask if we have been holding in words that God wants us to speak, and are they burning within?
We listened to the band sing two songs about that kind of fire - "On Fire" and "Jeremiah."
We shared communion at the table of love.