The Gospel According to Mark • September 27th, 2020

Looming in the background is this pervasive desire for the crisis(s) to be over, for things to just go back to normal. In other words, we want our regular rhythms back. We want to pick up our side-hustles again; we want to move about the world unencumbered by crisis. But what if this isn't God’s heart for us. What if the very things we’re striving to get back to are the things that shackle us to comfort and complacency?

God’s heart is not for “better” gatherings, more hype, more prestige; rather, he wants to gather our hearts to himself so that we could be the gift to the world he’s always desired we be.

The emerging hope, challenging though it is, is that through this we could become the type of resilient disciples who stand with Jesus and one another no matter what comes.

Our hope is that God would not lift this thing - whatever this something is - until he’s done shaping us into the type of people who carry his name with integrity, love, and compassion.