Preparation for the Encounter
How and why did God create us?
God created us male and female in his own image to know him, love him, live with him, and glorify him. And it is right that we who were created by God should live to his glory.
Mark 3:7-21 Blue Bible, page 1066
Jesus Calls & Creates 1. Specifically & Effectively 2. Beautifully & Perfectly 3. Purposefully
Mark 3:7-21 ESV 7 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea 8 and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon [multicultural]. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him.
Mark 3:7-21 ESV 9 And he told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd, lest they crush him, 10 for he had healed many, so that all who had diseases pressed around him to touch him.
Mark 3:7-21 ESV 11 And whenever the unclean spirits saw him, they fell down before him and cried out, You are the Son of God. 12 And he strictly ordered them not to make him known.
Mark 3:7-21 ESV 13 And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him.
Mark 3:7-21 ESV 14 And he appointed (ποιέω) twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might (1) be with him and he might send them out (2) to preach 15 and have authority (3) to cast out demons.
Mark 3:7-21 ESV 16 He appointed the twelve: Simon (to whom he gave the name Peter); 17 James the son of Zebedee and John the brother of James (to whom he gave the name Boanerges, that is, Sons of Thunder);
Mark 3:7-21 ESV 18 Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Zealot, 19 and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed him.
Mark 3:7-21 ESV 20 Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. 21 And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, He is out of his mind.
Mark 3:13 ESV 13 And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him.
Mark 3:13 ESV 13 And he called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him.
John 10:27 ESV 27 My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.
Mark 3:13 ESV 13 And he went up on the mountain and called to him those whom he desired, and they came to him.
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Mark 3:14 ESV 14 And he appointed (ποιέω) twelve
Mark 3:14-15 ESV 14 And he appointed (ποιέω) twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might
Mark 3:14-15 ESV 14 And he appointed (ποιέω) twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might (1) be with him and he might send them out
Discipleship is a relationship before it is a task, a who before a what. James R. Edwards, The Gospel according to Mark, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI; Leicester, England: Eerdmans; Apollos, 2002), 113.
Mark 3:14-15 ESV 14 And he appointed (ποιέω) twelve (whom he also named apostles) so that they might (1) be with him and he might send them out (2) to preach 15 and have authority to
Mark 1:14 ESV 14 Jesus came into Galilee, proclaiming the gospel of God
Mark 1:21 ESV 21 immediately on the Sabbath he entered the synagogue and was teaching
Mark 1:39 ESV 39 And he went throughout all Galilee, preaching in their synagogues
Mark 2:2 ESV 2 And many were gathered together And he was preaching the word to them.
Mark 10:1 ESV 1 And crowds gathered to him again. And again, as was his custom, he taught them.
Romans 10:14 ESV 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
Mark 3:14-15 ESV 14 And he appointed (ποιέω) twelve so that they might (1) be with (2) to preach 15 and have authority to (3) cast out demons
Jesus Calls & Creates 1. Specifically & Effectively 2. Beautifully & Perfectly 3. Purposefully
Mark 3:7-21 Blue Bible, page 1066