Trust in the postmodern age
Proper 23B | Mark 10:17-31
You thought last week’s teaching about marriage and divorce was spicy! Check this one out! Jesus is on fire, friends. And he comes to cleanse.
This is also one of his last teachings before they arrive in Jerusalem and part of what we might call his Passion Prediction Discourse—this collection of teachings about the Kin-dom and how different it is from the disciples’ expectations. So we should bring with us all of this other teaching, just as we have over the last few weeks. About the children and not being stumbling blocks—about commitment and compassion and sharing the love of God with others.
This is what we’re thinking about when a man runs up to Jesus as he’s leaving town, drops to his knees, and begs Jesus to tell him what he must do to inherit eternal life.
We’re going to pick apart this story, because it is full of stuff—assumptions and details, communicating the purpose and mistakes of faith. And we’re going to see why we always seem to see things the way this man does rather than Jesus. …
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