Our new senior pastor, Alex Van Riesen, taught from the Gospel of Mark this past Sunday. He read chapter 1, verses 16 thru 20. (*If you would like to hear the teaching, go to vcfp.org, click-on SERMONS, then select "download" under the teaching for September 6th.)
One of the comments Alex made was that Jesus' invitation to Simon and his brother, Andrew, to "Come, follow me, ... and I will make you fishers of men" (v.17) seemed bizarre. I mean, can you imagine Jesus saying something similar to you...and if He did, you dropping everything to follow Him? What was it about Jesus' invitation that was so appealing...appealing enough to leave everything behind in order to go and be with Him, to go and learn to do what He was doing?
Alex did a great job talking about Jesus' invitation to His first followers - and to you and me today - that it was an invitation to be transformed, to adopt a different orientation toward life, to discover a new reason and purpose for living.
As I listened to the teaching this past Sunday, a short DVD called "Dust" by another pastor came to mind. It talks about what it meant for a 1st century rabbi to invite a 1st century Jew to become his disciple. The pastor's name is Rob Bell, the DVD series is called NOOMA, and I think it is really worth watching. I will include it here on my blog. Hope you enjoy it, and, that God uses it to increase your faith!
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