You Can't Unsee | Week Five | John 20:11-16 | May 3rd, 2026

Joey concluded our series by asking: if the Resurrection establishes truth and restores our identity, what are we to do with our lives? In John 20, Mary Magdalene mistakes the resurrected Jesus for a gardener. While she was literally wrong, she was profoundly right symbolically: Jesus is the "New Adam," the cultivator of a new creation.

One of the deepest crises of our age is meaninglessness. We have more comfort and entertainment than any civilization in history, yet anxiety and despair are deepening because humans cannot survive without a "why". As believers in the risen Christ, we understand that "why" as our vocation—from the Latin vocare, meaning "to call". Vocation is not just a career; it is the way your life participates in the work of God in the world. We were not created merely to be consumers of the world, but to be cultivators of it. Resurrection healing doesn't mean having fewer burdens; it means being restored to a meaningful responsibility rooted in love.