Sermon Preparation for February 20

So, this is a bit late. Sorry about that. I will set a regular schedule for my sermon notes soon. I will probably post them on Wednesday and then (in a perfect world) port the sermon on Sunday or Monday.

In any case for this Sunday I am working on Mark 1:16-20 where Jesus calls the first four disciples. It is a very short passage with just a few terse details. The calling of the other disciples comes later, and this calling focuses on details around their being fishermen and being asked by Jesus to come and learn to catch people.

It's an odd one, not the least because it is a call to discipleship of a sorts, of folks who don't seem to be typical disciples and who are being asked not to do typical disciple things, at least that is my first impression.

So what to do with this? It leads nicely into a conversation of followers of Jesus being invited into a different kind of relationship, one more like an apprenticeship than into typical first century discipleship, but is that the way the sermon should go. Hmmm.