The good news in this parable is ... that Jesus knows we will stumble and expects us to show up in Heaven lame and scarred by the inner struggle to be true to our loyalty to God as frail and faulty human beings.
Year B
Pentecost 18
September 30, 2012
Sunday between September 25 and October 1 inclusive
Proper 21, Ordinary Time 26
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Sermon by the Rev. Dr. George Hermanson, "Instructions for the Community."
Today's lesson has enough wisdom for a month of Sundays. What can be read in 5 minutes may take a life-time to ponder and practice before we have been inwardly formed by the voice of the text this day.
As someone once said:
You can divide the world into two groups of people.
Those who believe you can divide the world into two group of people,
and those who don't.
Jesus' disciples belong to the first group; Jesus belongs to the second.
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Click here to read the full Holy Textures background commentary on Mark 9:38-50.
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