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Mark #38 - Good Stewards
Mark 12:1-12 (NIV)
“I will sing for the one I love
a song about his vineyard:
My loved one had a vineyard
on a fertile hillside.
He dug it up and cleared it of stones
and planted it with the choicest vines.
He built a watchtower in it
and cut out a winepress as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
but it yielded only bad fruit.”
We are in the middle of an extremely tense scene. Jesus has overturned the temple trade system, rebuked the chief priests and teachers of the law, and in today’s passage, he continues to not-so-subtly call out the failure of the Jewish leaders. The passage I just read is from Isaiah, chapter 5. The people listening to Jesus would have known it well, and its meaning is far from unclear. Jesus takes that image and reconfigures it just slightly for the present moment.
As you listen to today’s passage, again imagine the scene. Feel the tension. How would you have responded if you were one of the religious leaders? How would you have reacted if you were in the crowd?
----------REFLECT----------
1. What details stood out to you in the parable Jesus tells?
2. Israel’s role was to be a blessing to the nations—to be a doorway of entrance and welcome for the world to come into covenant relationship with their Maker, not a community creating walls to keep others out. As the church, as the people of God in our generation, what rebuke do we need to hear collectively from the Lord through this story?
3. Sometimes we can be like Israel’s leaders, God gives us a role to play or a gift to steward and we take it and twist it and corrupt it until it becomes something that serves us alone. How might Jesus be offering you freedom from that today?
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Mark 12:1-12 (NIV)
“I will sing for the one I love
a song about his vineyard:
My loved one had a vineyard
on a fertile hillside.
He dug it up and cleared it of stones
and planted it with the choicest vines.
He built a watchtower in it
and cut out a winepress as well.
Then he looked for a crop of good grapes,
but it yielded only bad fruit.”
We are in the middle of an extremely tense scene. Jesus has overturned the temple trade system, rebuked the chief priests and teachers of the law, and in today’s passage, he continues to not-so-subtly call out the failure of the Jewish leaders. The passage I just read is from Isaiah, chapter 5. The people listening to Jesus would have known it well, and its meaning is far from unclear. Jesus takes that image and reconfigures it just slightly for the present moment.
As you listen to today’s passage, again imagine the scene. Feel the tension. How would you have responded if you were one of the religious leaders? How would you have reacted if you were in the crowd?
----------REFLECT----------
1. What details stood out to you in the parable Jesus tells?
2. Israel’s role was to be a blessing to the nations—to be a doorway of entrance and welcome for the world to come into covenant relationship with their Maker, not a community creating walls to keep others out. As the church, as the people of God in our generation, what rebuke do we need to hear collectively from the Lord through this story?
3. Sometimes we can be like Israel’s leaders, God gives us a role to play or a gift to steward and we take it and twist it and corrupt it until it becomes something that serves us alone. How might Jesus be offering you freedom from that today?
----------GO DEEPER----------
Bible Project: Mark Overview >>
Bible Project: The Gospel >>
Bible Project: Gospel of the Kingdom >>
----------CONNECT----------
Find an InterVarsity Chapter >>
Start an InterVarsity Chapter >>
Learn More >>