Choices (January 25, 2026)

In the Sunday school classic story from Matthew's Gospel, Jesus approaches Peter and Andrew, James and John along the lakeshore and offers them a choice: To follow him, or not. But there's definitely more than just a Sunday school context to that invitation: Jesus' prophetic mentor John the Baptizer has been arrested and soon will be executed by the state, and Jesus is headed deeper into Galilee to speak truth to power and liberation to the "least of these" and put his own life on the line for the Gospel of love. Do the fishermen want to follow him to that same end? Do we? The choice is before us.(Matthew 4:12, 17-23)Join us for worship Sundays @ 10am Eastern Time, on-site & online via Zoom. Connect at www.NeedhamUCC.org—-The Congregational Church of Needham strives to be a justice-seeking, peace-making, LGBTQ+ affirming, radically inclusive congregation of the United Church of Christ in Needham, MA. www.NeedhamUCC.orgChurch is the practice.Love is the point.