Intro to the Gospel of Mark

Title: Intro to the Gospel of Mark

Text: 1:1-7

Link to message: Introduction to the Gospel of Mark

Link to Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPeiKCw_njk

We live in a world that tries very hard to compress everything into short, little sound bites.  As we have moved from writing letters to emails to tweets, Facebooking and texts we have forgotten the art of letter writing.  The Gospel of Mark is in the end a letter and as such there are major themes that Mark is going to go over and re-enforce.  This message was designed to be a 10,000 to 20,000 foot flyby of Mark or a big picture view of the book, so we can lay out some of the major themes that will be unpacked as we walk through it.

Intro Questions:

- Who is Jesus and what did He do?
- What is a disciple and what do they do?

How do you answer that first question?  So often our answers drill back to "Jesus died on the cross and rose again" while that is key and extremely important if we drill in an focus on just that we miss an important message from the Gospel of Mark.  One of the major themes that Mark focuses in on is Jesus humanity and His modeling for us what it means to be human.  Jesus said "Follow me" in saying that he is inviting us to become what we were created to be...

How do you answer the second question?  The interesting thing is to walk through Mark and note the answer to those questions...As you walk through Mark ask yourself: who is "getting it" and who isn't? Who is on the inside and who is on the outside?

Give a listen to this message and the overview of Mark as we get ready to walk through this Gospel in the upcoming weeks and months.

The message contains multiple quotes from Pillar's The Gospel According to Mark by James R. Edwards.

Blessings,
PT