Sunday 3.10.19
Published on Mar 04, 2019
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Good Morning!
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Tithes & Offerings
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Leader: We will study the life of Jesus through the book of Mark. Jesus has come; anything can happen now. Mark wants us to see that the coming of Jesus calls for decisive action. Jesus is seen as a man of action, moving quickly and decisively from event to event. There is relatively little of Jesus’s teaching in the Gospel of Mark—mainly, we see Jesus doing. Therefore we can’t remain neutral; we need to respond actively.
All: 14Jesus went into Galilee, proclaiming the good news of God. 15“The time has come,” he said. “The kingdom of God is near. Repent and believe the good news!”
Leader: The first time we hear Jesus’s voice in Mark’s Gospel, he says, “Repent and believe the good news!” As soon as Jesus begins to speak about the kingdom of God publicly, he selects twelve men to be his disciples—his core group of friends and followers. Mark records the first of these encounters:
All: 16 As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. 17 “Come, follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” 18 At once they left their nets and followed him. 19 When he had gone a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John in a boat, preparing their nets. 20 Without delay he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.
Leader: Jesus immediately calls people to follow him. The good news is that you don’t need to earn your way to God; Jesus has already done it for you. And it’s a gift that you receive by sheer grace—through God’s thoroughly unmerited favor. We are called to follow a King. Not just someone with the power and authority to tell you what needs to be done—but someone with the power and authority to do what needs to be done, and then to offer it to you as good news. Mark continues to build on this theme:
All: 21 They went to Capernaum, and when the Sabbath came, Jesus went into the synagogue and began to teach. 22 The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, not as the teachers of the law.
Leader: Mark uses the term authority for the first time; the word literally means “out of the original stuff.” It comes from the same word as author. His listeners sensed somehow that he was explaining the story of their lives as the author, and it left them dumbfounded. Mark then takes the theme of authority to the next level:
All: 29 As soon as they left the synagogue, they went with James and John to the home of Simon and Andrew. 30 Simon’s mother-in-law was in bed with a fever, and they immediately told Jesus about her. 31 So he went to her, took her hand and helped her up. The fever left her and she began to wait on them.
Leader: The healing shows that Jesus is concerned with and king over the physical world—not just the spiritual. He shows he has real power over sickness—just a touch of his hand and the fever is cured. And this happens over and over. There are, in fact, thirty healings recorded in the Gospels, all showing us that Jesus has authority over sickness.
All: Come, follow me. Jesus is saying, “Follow me because I’m the King you’ve been looking for. Follow me because I have authority over everything, yet I have humbled myself for you.”
Leader: Why? “Because I died on the cross for you when you didn’t have the right beliefs or the right behavior. Because I have brought you good news, not advice. Because I’m your true love, your true life—follow me.”
I'm here, to meet with you,
Come and meet with me
I'm here, to find you, Reveal yourself to me
As I wait, you make me strong as I long
Draw me to your arms as I stand And sing your praise You come you come and you fill this place
I'm here, to meet with you,
Come and meet with me
I'm here, to find you, Reveal yourself to me
As I wait, you make me strong as I long
Draw me to your arms as I stand And sing your praise You come you come and you fill this place
"Jesus, Lover of my Soul"
Photo by Eduardo Amorim
Jesus, lover of my soul
Jesus, I will never let you go
You've taken me from the miry clay
Set my feet upon the rock and now I know
I love you, I need you, though my world may fall I'll never let you go
My savior, my closest friend
I will worship you until the very end.
Family Prayer Time
@ the altar
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Message
"The Call"
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