Worship with us: YouTube (Please subscribe!) Scripture Readings: Mark 11:1-11 Mark 14:3-9 Have you ever noticed how some words become more common and comfortable for different groups of people? For example, if I’m in a conversation with a couple of accountants, my eyes begin to do this droopy thing and I start to lose focus. Then, even normal words seem like they aren’t fitting together like they used to do. The same thing can be true of different social groups and affiliations. Ask a Star Wars fan under the age of 40 what they think about dilithium crystals, and they will most likely have no idea what you are talking about unless they have a parent or grandparent that grew up watching Star Trek. My point is that we tend to swim in circles of comfort, even in the church. There’s a very churchy word that shows up in our readings today that illustrates this point, or rather I should say that our use of and reaction to this word can be as divisive as it can be unifying. The word is, ...
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