42 min
Millstones & Maiming King's Cross Church
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- Christianity
We come to a passage laden with violent images. They are often startling to a modern reader. Why would Jesus invoke such pictures, especially when discussing leadership? Jesus surprises - not only with painful words about exclusion, but also thoughts that would have been stunningly inclusive in his context. But why do those kinds of discussions almost always feel violent? Even in our society, where inclusion has become a theme, that topic itself seems ironically to have divided. How do we deal with that as followers of Christ? How could Jesus' words here be good news? Let's talk about “Millstones & Maiming” (Mark 9:33-50).
We come to a passage laden with violent images. They are often startling to a modern reader. Why would Jesus invoke such pictures, especially when discussing leadership? Jesus surprises - not only with painful words about exclusion, but also thoughts that would have been stunningly inclusive in his context. But why do those kinds of discussions almost always feel violent? Even in our society, where inclusion has become a theme, that topic itself seems ironically to have divided. How do we deal with that as followers of Christ? How could Jesus' words here be good news? Let's talk about “Millstones & Maiming” (Mark 9:33-50).
42 min