The Gospel of Mark 9:38-48 is a difficult one. Jesus is telling us that the Kingdom or God is worth any price...including your own hand, foot, or eye — if they cause you to sin. Jesus even goes so far as to say it is better to drown than to cause “little ones who believe in me to sin.”
Father Cooper had three main questions to help us all apply this teaching to our lives:
1. How do non-teachers lead others to God?
2. When have you experienced the Spirit of God at an unexpected time, from an unexpected source?
3. What leads you to sin? How do you cut it off or remove it? How do you remove the “millstone” from your neck? It could even be a relationship that needs to be severed.
We must also remember “big tent Christianity”. We may not understand what another denomination does, but “whoever is not against us is for us.”
Father Cooper had three main questions to help us all apply this teaching to our lives:
1. How do non-teachers lead others to God?
2. When have you experienced the Spirit of God at an unexpected time, from an unexpected source?
3. What leads you to sin? How do you cut it off or remove it? How do you remove the “millstone” from your neck? It could even be a relationship that needs to be severed.
We must also remember “big tent Christianity”. We may not understand what another denomination does, but “whoever is not against us is for us.”