Comments on: The Beginning of a Series on the Gospel of Mark http://inamirrordimly.com/2010/01/04/the-beginning-of-a-series-on-the-gospel-of-mark/ An imperfect and sometimes sarcastic perspective on following Jesus by Ed Cyzewski. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 18:07:57 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Mark One (Part 1): A Messiah in the Wilderness | :: in.a.mirror.dimly :: http://inamirrordimly.com/2010/01/04/the-beginning-of-a-series-on-the-gospel-of-mark/comment-page-1/#comment-3026 Mark One (Part 1): A Messiah in the Wilderness | :: in.a.mirror.dimly :: Fri, 08 Jan 2010 20:13:00 +0000 http://inamirrordimly.com/2010/01/04/the-beginning-of-a-series-on-the-gospel-of-mark/#comment-3026 [...] The first installment of my meditations on the Gospel of Mark. Check out the intro here. [...] [...] The first installment of my meditations on the Gospel of Mark. Check out the intro here. [...]

]]> By: ed http://inamirrordimly.com/2010/01/04/the-beginning-of-a-series-on-the-gospel-of-mark/comment-page-1/#comment-3025 ed Thu, 07 Jan 2010 22:00:14 +0000 http://inamirrordimly.com/2010/01/04/the-beginning-of-a-series-on-the-gospel-of-mark/#comment-3025 Great stuff Ray. Thanks for sharing! Great stuff Ray. Thanks for sharing!

]]> By: Ray Hollenbach http://inamirrordimly.com/2010/01/04/the-beginning-of-a-series-on-the-gospel-of-mark/comment-page-1/#comment-3019 Ray Hollenbach Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:47:14 +0000 http://inamirrordimly.com/2010/01/04/the-beginning-of-a-series-on-the-gospel-of-mark/#comment-3019 "If the people who witnessed Jesus’ miracles found him puzzling, with many rejecting him outright, then any reading of the Gospels should be uncomfortable at some levels, stirring up some tough issues, confusing us, and leaving us with difficult choices to make. " This is great point, Ed. Do you remember the movie "The Sixth Sense"? The big twist at the end is that Bruce Willis had been dead all along. I had a friend who maintained, "It was no surprise. What's the big deal about the movie?" Turns out someone told my fried BEFORE the movie that Bruce Willis was dead the whole time--it colored his experience of the film. The same with Mark's gospel. We come to the book thinking, "Sure. Jesus. Nice guy, Savior of the world." And thus we miss all the discomfort and confusion over this miracle-working rabbi who "boom" bursts on to the scene in Mark's gospel. If Jesus showed up today you can be sure we would be faced with hard choices! “If the people who witnessed Jesus’ miracles found him puzzling, with many rejecting him outright, then any reading of the Gospels should be uncomfortable at some levels, stirring up some tough issues, confusing us, and leaving us with difficult choices to make. ”

This is great point, Ed. Do you remember the movie “The Sixth Sense”? The big twist at the end is that Bruce Willis had been dead all along. I had a friend who maintained, “It was no surprise. What’s the big deal about the movie?” Turns out someone told my fried BEFORE the movie that Bruce Willis was dead the whole time–it colored his experience of the film.

The same with Mark’s gospel. We come to the book thinking, “Sure. Jesus. Nice guy, Savior of the world.” And thus we miss all the discomfort and confusion over this miracle-working rabbi who “boom” bursts on to the scene in Mark’s gospel. If Jesus showed up today you can be sure we would be faced with hard choices!

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