Trust
Text: Mark 6:1-13 It must have been terrifying to be one of Jesus’ original disciples. In the short time they’d been with him, he had been going at a dizzying pace, healing the sick and performing miracles and even raising the dead, while zigzagging back and forth across the borders of Jewish and Gentile territories on both sides of the Sea of Galilee. The disciples had often showed a serious lack of comprehension of Jesus’s words and his actions. And Jesus often faced rejection, first by his family and then by the religious community, and today, by the people of his hometown. He had been all powerful, stilling storms and bringing new life to the desperate, and yet today in the face of rejection he is inexplicably unable to bring forth much of that power. And what does Jesus do? He shakes off the dust. And he calls his disciples together and sends them out into the world to be his witnesses, to heal and forgive and bring wholeness to all who
