Finding Jesus

Why does Luke include the strange story of Jesus getting “lost” at age twelve? Finding Jesus shows how misunderstanding and searching are not failures of faith but part of the way disciples come to see who Jesus truly is—and where He can be found.

Scripture: Luke 2.41-52

(Additional Reading: Luke 24.13-35; 1 Samuel 2.26; Luke 4.43)

Warm-Up:

Have you ever been looking for Jesus – only to realize you’d been looking in the wrong place?

“I am trying here to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: ‘I’m ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don’t accept His claim to be God.’ That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic… or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse.”

- C.S. Lewis -