Mark 1:4-5 CEB

John the Baptist was in the wilderness calling for people to be baptized to show that they were changing their hearts and lives and wanted God to forgive their sins. 

Everyone in Judea and all the people of Jerusalem went out to the Jordan River and were being baptized by John as they confessed their sins. 

Mark 1:4-5 CEB

We would call this a revival!

People were answering the call of John &  heading out to the river and being baptised.

Lots of people.

And Mark couches this as a part of preparing the way for Jesus - people hearing the call, confessing, and changing, being changed.

Transformation.

Revival.

Looking for God's forgiveness and wanting to live in that forgiveness.

As a pointer to Jesus.

This is quite a story, a story that has it's beginning in the mists of time and wends its way into our today, a story that we are part of too...

#gospel

#gospelofMark 

#GoodNews

#revival

#weareinaBigStory