Beyond platitudes and pat answers, you can (re?)discover the excitement of the Scriptures. It’s actually right here, right now.
Mark’s story of Jesus is remarkable for its masterful oral and literary design. It comes to an astonishing punchline that, once you’ve followed the story inch by inch, will change how you see everything from now on.
And you will gain an intuitive sense of
- What the Bible is about, as a whole;
- What makes interpretations good or bad;
- How hearing is a key to reading;
- Narrative design and why it matters;
- Who Jesus was for the New Testament writers and why that’s important for us today; and
- How to share the Good News.
Addressing a harried, mostly Jewish-Christian community in Roman-occupied Palestine about life-and-death issues just before the terrible end of the First Jewish Revolt (66–70 AD), Mark empowers even 21st-century skeptics to see Jesus in new ways, and through him to come to a renewed understanding not just of Scripture but of life itself.
Don’t let anyone tell you that the Bible is loaded with mistakes and “contradictions”, or that it’s somehow less significant, meaningful, artful, powerful, entertaining (if that’s important to you), well-written, well-structured, cohesive, compelling, or grounded in humanity’s shared moral core than any other expression of wisdom, ancient or modern. Mark’s Gospel is the most profound book ever written. (No, I’m not kidding!)
More tools and so much more insight are available to us today than ever before. We have no excuse for misunderstanding the foundational Text of our entire civilization. We have no reason to avoid its challenges.
The “beginning of the Good News” (Mk 1.1) is about transformation!
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