Jesus’ guide for discipleship invites us to rethink our expectations of what discipleship means and who disciples are. Embedded in the invitation is a deep look meeting the soul of our being with enduring love and perpetual hospitality  to embrace the next steps of faith-filled following the Jesus Way.

Sermon begins at minute marker 5:37
Mark 10:17-31 
Resources

• BibleWorm podcast: ⦁ Episode 526 – The Eye of the Needle, Amy Robertson and Robert Williamson, Jr.
• Mark: Believers Church Bible Commentary, Timothy J Geddert; Herald Press, 2001.
• Narrative Language Lectionary: 570 First Last and Last First
• Tricia Hersey, Rest Is Resistance: A Manifesto; New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2022
• Richard Rohr, “The Need for Mysticism”, Daily Meditations, August 2, 2020. 
• Image: Nagara Oyodo on unsplash

Hymn 

VT 758 Who Will Speak a Word of Warning text: Richard Leach, © 2000 Selah Publishing Co., Inc. music: Alfred V. Fedak, 1988, © 1989 Selah Publishing Co., Inc. Permission to podcast the music in this service obtained from One License with license #A-726929. All rights reserved.