2nd Sunday of Lent Collaborative Message Prep


Last week I posted concerning doing some collaborative message preparation during the Lenten season. Here’s the link to the Google Doc I have set up for sermon research and thoughts for this Sunday’s (February 25th) message.

Sunday we will be talking about Mark 8:31-38

31 He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again.32 He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.

33 But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”

34 Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me. 35 For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me and for the gospel will save it.36 What good is it for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their soul? 37 Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? 38 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of them when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

Babylon Bee Article – Calvinist Comes Forward During Altar Call To Correct Pastor’s Theology

I’m just posting this joke article right here (Calvinist Comes Forward During Altar Call To Correct Pastor’s Theology) in an attempt to say two things:

  1. I am thankful that I don’t experience this much in Tapestry. It happens but it is very rare.
  2. It isn’t just Calvinists that do it.

Anyhow the article gave me a chuckle. Especially the last paragraph:

At publishing time, Johnson had spent several hours laying out a Calvinist view of soteriology before finally leading the pastor in a prayer to receive the doctrines of grace.