Come to the HUB anytime between 11:45 am and 1:15 pm for lunch, conversation, and a relaxed exploration of the gospel reading for this Sunday. Bring or buy your lunch, and check our facebook page around 11:40 am for our location. Can’t make it today? Check out the reading and questions for reflection below.
Mark 9:30-37
30 They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did not want anyone to know it; 31 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” 32 But they did not understand what he was saying and were afraid to ask him. 33 Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” 34 But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one another who was the greatest. 35 He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them, “Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.” 36 Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking it in his arms, he said to them, 37 “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.”
Reflection
What in this story strikes you as interesting or unique?
It seems Jesus was being very clear, but his followers didn’t get it. What does that say to you?
When have you been confused and afraid to ask God what was going on?
In what part of your life to you want to be the greatest?
How is pride or ambition a challenge in life?
What does it mean to be servant of all for you?
What does welcoming a child mean – then and now?