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You are here: Home / Life Apps / Life App for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, 7/8/18 to 7/14/18

Life App for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, 7/8/18 to 7/14/18

July 6, 2018

A way to live a mission in your daily work (paid or volunteer):
Do you work well even if others do not value it. 

Based on Mark 6:1-13 (see a readable retelling below); a reading that comes from the Revised Common Lectionary for the Seventh Sunday after Pentecost, 7/8/18.

Jesus and his disciples come to his home country and he starts to teach in the synagogue.  His hearers are astonished at his wisdom and his healings – “mighty works wrought by his hands.”  [Stilling the storm; healing a mentally ill man; healing a woman’s hemorrhage, and restoring a dead child to life – Mark 4:15 – 5:43.]  However, since the villagers know his family and his trade as a carpenter, the villagers discount Jesus as the Messiah.  [Many expected the Messiah to be wholly glorious, even supernatural.]  He leaves having been able to heal only a few.  He comments that a prophet is not honored in his home town because people know him.  [This pattern of rejection by his own people continues throughout Mark’s Gospel.]

It is time now to send out the twelve to spread the word of God’s coming and the need to repent [turn your life around] to receive it.  He sends them out equipped to travel light not weighed down with extra clothing.  When ill treated somewhere, they are to shake the dust off their feet is a way to say the villagers are unbelieving and to be avoided.  The disciples cast out demons and heal many with oil [believed to carry miraculous power].

A theme:  Jesus is rejected by his own people and his followers also need to be prepared for rejection.

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