For Sunday – Drew Downs

Learning from Bartimaeus—for Proper 25B

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As Jesus approaches Jericho, he meets a blind man named Bartimaeus, who reveals the other side of discpleship.

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When James and John request a special place, they make the mistake of thinking they’re better. We must resist thinking they’re worse.

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The challenge in Jesus’s teaching on divorce is not that he praises “staying together,” but that we don’t get what together means.

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When the disciples come across a stranger casting out demons, they want to stop him. Jesus has other plans for them, however.

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In the second passion prediction, Jesus again upends the disciples’ expectations (and ours) for a messiah, and for his followers.

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In this week’s reflection, we look at Peter’s proclamation of Jesus as the Messiah and what we should learn from mission confusion.