Mark 2
OUT TO PREACH

It is interesting to see the places where Jesus taught and preached. He started by calling disciples “beside the Sea of Galilee” (Mark 1 v 16), then he “went into the synagogue and began to teach” on the Sabbath (1 v 21). Simon and Andrew’s home was the next stop (1 v 29), and then “he travelled throughout Galilee, preaching in their synagogues” (1 v 39). By the end of Mark chapter one, he “stayed outside in lonely places” and the people came to him.

Jesus preached in a house (Mark 2 v 1), beside the lake (2 v 13), at Levi’s house (v 15), in grainfields (2 v 23), in a synagogue (3 v 11), beside the lake again (3 v 7), on a mountainside (3 v 13), in another house (3 v 20), and by the lake yet again (4 v 1).

Jesus went where the people were unless he was swamped with people wanting to hear him. He didn’t hide himself up in a hall and wonder why the response was so small. He preached on a beach, in the synagogues where the people came to learn, in homes and on mountainsides.

Let’s not wonder why people don’t come to listen to us, but like Jesus, let’s get out to where the people are.

May we bear fruit as we share the gospel of the kingdom of God this week.

With love in our Lord
Robert
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