Discipleship
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The call of the disciples (Mark 1:16-20)
- As Jesus walked beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting a net into the lake, for they were fishermen. “Come, follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will send you out to fish for people.” At once they left their nets and followed him.
- When he had gone a little farther, he saw James son of Zebedee and his brother John in a boat, preparing their nets. Without delay he called them, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and followed him.
Bishop Hugh Montefiore
- born 1920 into Jewish family
- at 16 saw a man in white saying 'follow me' immediately became christian
- studied theology, became priest then bishop of Kingston-Upon-Thames, then Birmingham, helped women and racial and industrial problems
- retired to help wife with Alzheimer's disease. died in 2005
Mercy Ships UK
- christian charity committed to help needy people in the world, to 'reflect the love of Jesus'
- 1982 'Anastasis' (resurrection) first hospital ship sailed 350 volunteers
- all had to pay for whatever they need including food
- now ships go to over 150 places for medical treatment.
- land-based programmed help war torn communities and sanitation and water, also train people to prevent disease
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Disciples High Points
- responding immediately to discipleship call
- went on missions that Jesus told them to after the commission
- upset that one of them would betray Jesus
- Peter recognised him as the Messiah
- Peter wanted to honour Jesus at the transfiguration
- Peter regrets running away when Jesus was arrested
Disciples Low Points
- lacked faith during Galilee lake storm
- Peter denies knowing jesus
- judas betrayed jesus
- Peter james and john fall asleep at the mount of Gethsemane
- all ran away when jesus was arrested
The parable of the Mustard seed (Mark 4:30-32)
- he said, “What shall we say the kingdom of God is like, or what parable shall we use to describe it?
- It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade.”
Rewards in the Kingdom of God (Mark 10:28-31)
- Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!” “Truly I tell you,” Jesus replied, “no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields—along with persecutions—and in the age to come eternal life.
- But many who are first will be last, and the last first.”
Jesus' teaching on service (Mark 10:42-45)
- Jesus called them together and said, “You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their high officials exercise authority over them.Not so with you.
- Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all.For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Mother Maria of Ravensbruck (1891-1945)
- born in Latvia as Elizabeth was atheist in a Christian family.
- left Russia for Paris because lives in danger in Communist revolution
- became christian nun and had a son Yuri as Mother Maria
- not convent, her home was a centre for the poor.
- Her, Yuri and a russian orthodox priest helped Jews that were seeked by Nazis in Paris.
- 1943 all three arrested and they still helped people in the camp in Ravensbruck
- She died in the place of a Jew in the gas chambers in 1945
The widow at the treasury (Mark 12: 41-44)
- Jesus sat down opposite the place where the offerings were put and watched the crowd putting their money into the temple treasury. Many rich people threw in large amounts. But a poor widow came and put in two very small copper coins, worth only a few cents.
- Calling his disciples to him, Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put more into the treasury than all the others. They all gave out of their wealth; but she, out of her poverty, put in everything—all she had to live on.”
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