Verse of the Day September 25

We begin our new series Reimagining the Church.

Each week, we’ll explore a different New Testament image or metaphor for being disciples of Christ and the church and we begin this week with the Gospel of Mark. Mark is the oldest gospel, the first to be written, and in it Jesus calls his followers to be disciples of the cross. This was not easy for the first disciples of Jesus nor for the households of faith to whom Mark was initially speaking, and it isn’t easy for us today.

Today’s reading Mark 8:31-38, Disciples of the Cross.

The Verses of the Day are Mark 8:34,

He called the crowd with his disciples, and said to them, “If any want to become my followers, let them deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.”