Mark 8:34 NLT

Then, calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, 

"If any of you wants to be my follower, 

you must give up your own way, 

take up your cross, 

and follow me."

Mark 8:34 NLT

In Mark's account Jesus had been talking with the Disciples about rejection, suffering, death and ressurection, and here he is launching into a teaching to the crowd to "take up your cross" if they want to follow Jesus.

Perhaps Jesus was trying to tell the crowd there's a lot more going on here than people getting healed, some kind of celebrity Rabbi thing.

Maybe the clue is in the phrase before "take up your cross", which is "give up your own way".

I'm not good at giving up my own way.

But maybe this Easter we are being invited like this crowd was, like the disciples were, to put something down of our "own way".

What could that be?

#gospelofMark #GoodNews 

#invitation 

#easter