While Jesus was having dinner at Levi's house, many tax collectors and sinners were eating with him and his disciples, for there were many who followed him.
Mark 2:15 NIV
Jesus said Follow me back to your house for dinner!
It's not often we get a glimpse of the ordinary, the human Jesus, the person.
Just like us he needed to eat
Just like us he needed fellowship
Friends
People he could count on.
Sometimes leadership can be a difficult and lonely place. It's easy to be critical of our pastors, our leaders.
Easy to forget that they're just like us in many ways. Just like Jesus they need fellowship, friends.
Encouragement
Just like Jesus they need to eat :)
Love people in the ordinary, in the everyday
#lovepeople
#gospelofmark
#sunday
#worship
#thisisourGod
Christ is the visible image of the invisible God. He existed before anything was created and is supreme over all creation, for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can't see - such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. Colossians 1:15-16 NLT OK so this is an English translation of a letter Paul wrote to a church 2,000 years ago, but does it feel like Paul is wrestling with words and ideas to try and capture all of who Jesus is, of who God is, of how does it work that the walking around Jesus was also there before the beginning of the beginning of everything we can see and touch and know. Not only that but Jesus was somehow the agent of everything that has been made in the physical, social, and spiritual. Jesus is at the centre of it all. Walking around Jesus. Cooking fish for breakfast Jesus. Heart aching as he looks at p
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