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Mark For Everyone
MARK 6.7–13
The Twelve Sent Out...
...‘No time for coffee this morning,’ I told my teenage son today. ‘You’ve got a train to catch. You need to be at that meeting.’
He had emerged, sleepily, half an hour before his train left; it takes at least 20 minutes to get to the station. Pull on a pair of shoes, grab a bag, here’s some money, off you go. I hope he makes it.
Jesus didn’t even let them take a bag, or money. These are emergency instructions for a swift and dangerous mission, not a programme for the continuing life of the church after Easter. There have been a few brave souls who have tried to live like this in later times, but the church has usually, and in my view rightly, recognized that these commands are specific to Jesus’ own day and the setting of his mission in first-century Palestine...
Taken from Mark for Everyone by Tom Wright
MARK 6.7–13
The Twelve Sent Out...
...‘No time for coffee this morning,’ I told my teenage son today. ‘You’ve got a train to catch. You need to be at that meeting.’
He had emerged, sleepily, half an hour before his train left; it takes at least 20 minutes to get to the station. Pull on a pair of shoes, grab a bag, here’s some money, off you go. I hope he makes it.
Jesus didn’t even let them take a bag, or money. These are emergency instructions for a swift and dangerous mission, not a programme for the continuing life of the church after Easter. There have been a few brave souls who have tried to live like this in later times, but the church has usually, and in my view rightly, recognized that these commands are specific to Jesus’ own day and the setting of his mission in first-century Palestine...
Taken from Mark for Everyone by Tom Wright
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