Will you?
Text: Mark 16:1-8 The story of Easter is not just the story of something that happened a long time ago in a far away land. It is the story that is happening again over and over for all time. It is the story that has no end. On Easter morning, the women came to the tomb and they found it empty except for an angelic messenger who told them that Jesus had been raised from the dead and had gone on ahead of them and that they would find him there. And the women, filled with terror and amazement at the whole idea, ran away and said nothing. And so ends the book we call the Gospel of Mark, at least in its original form. This is the version of the Easter story you don’t always hear. The other Gospels relate more scenes, but this one, which is actually my favorite, ends here, and most people don’t know that - but now you do. And there’s a reason for that. People had a hard time being faithful followers of Jesus. Jesus was hard to follow. When Mark wrote this book, this was his theme
