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Mark 1:27-28 CEB
Everyone was shaken and questioned among themselves, 
"Whats this? 
A new teaching with authority! 
He even commands unclean spirits and they obey him!"
Right away the news about him spread throughout the entire region of Galilee.   
Mark 1:27-28 CEB
Jesus stirred everything up.
He has just called his disciples not from the ranks of scholars or students, but straight from their fishing boats.
He teaches in the synagogue with authority, and shows his authority over the spiritual. 
People are shaken up.
Jesus is not just some new flavour of Rabbi with some different ideas, Jesus is different.
Radical.
And people are talking about him, about what is going on where he is.
Sometimes this is the Jesus we need too. Jesus who shakes things up, not just because he can, but to bring healing, hope, and ushering in a new way of being in the world.
James, John, Simon & Andrew must've been wondering what they've found themselves in the middle of!
Do you wonder if Jesus was going to stir things up today, what would he be doing?
In my community.
In my church.
In me.
"Jesus, where are you stirring things up? 
Help me to see.
What do you want to shake up in me?
Just like the fishermen, I'm willing to follow you where you lead, even if i don't always understand it all"
#gospelofMark 
#trust
#dangerousprayers

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