[Propertalk] Gospel Quotes for Mark 9:38-50 - Part 6

[Joe Parrish]

...private ethic given to the disciples and covered by the exhortation, "love one another." For Jesus, the practical outworking of love is constantly expressed in the terms of inclusion. A disciple is to include a brother, or sister, by forgiving them and accepting them, welcoming them. The rationale for this ethic lies with the way God in Christ treats the repentant sinner. As God wholly forgives and accepts us, so we must wholly forgive and accept the one who bears the image of Christ. 

http://www.lectionarystudies.com/studyg/sunday26bg.html

Rev. Bryan Findlayson
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Jesus neither needs nor wants bouncers guarding the door to the grand feast he is initiating. Nevertheless, Jesus is not blurring the lines between believers and unbelievers. Rather, he displays and commands a generous openness to those who believe in him and are doing powerful deeds in his name, yet for reasons undefined have not joined the main body of disciples.

http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=3428

Stephen Fowl, 2006
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e.g. giving a cup of cold water. Somehow demonstrating in the process that we're doing it in his Name. Not by preaching it. By doing it. (Not setting up a committee to do it, either!)

http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/marginallymark/MMK93850P16.html

Brian McGowan
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Many people believe that the time of casting out demons is behind us.  They would preach that these simple country folk believed in demons and therefore, they had to be healed of them.  They believe that demons are merely the conjectures of a primitive mind.
I would contend that this distant, laissez-faire attitude towards Satan's labor is in itself evidence of just how effective demons are in our contemporary era.  It is as though the church sleeps while the lives of children and families are destroyed by the very animate demons of alcohol, drug addiction, pornography, systemic violence (disguised as justice), and a media barrage that glorifies sin in all its forms.

The United States incarcerates more youth per capita than any other country in the world and anyone who has spent time in our jails or on our streets would be intentionally blind not to see the influence of the demonic on the shattered lives of our young men and women today.

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Neurologists increasingly speak of neural pathways; cognitive trails formed largely in adolescence that we use habitually as mental shortcuts in the face of complex situations.  For example, some people learn early in life to turn their stress into prayer while others turn it into alcohol, rage, or drugs.  You can change these pathways by persistently forming new, habitual responses to stress but first you have to recognize the unhealthy paths. 

http://onefamilyoutreach.com/bible/Mark/mk_09_38-50.html

Jerry Goebel: 2005 © http://onefamilyoutreach.com
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The cause of Christ is not served by rejecting other ways to God. The cause of Christianity is not helped by those who claim that no real good can happen beyond the boundaries of one's denomination or persuasion. We can all take pride in the good done by our community without denigrating the good work of those who are "not one of us."

http://www.bible.claret.org/liturgy/daily/sundays_pierse/cycleB/B_26thSunOT.htm

Gerry Pierse
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9:48 "where their worm does not die, and the fire is not quenched." Unlike 9:44 and 9:46, this verse is original. This verse was an adaptation of Isaiah 66:24
"And they shall go forth and look on the dead bodies of the men that have rebelled against me; for their worm shall not die, their fire shall not be quenched, and they shall be an abhorrence to all flesh." (RSV)

The worm referred to the nature decay process of dead bodies. Those who rebelled against God would suffer unending decay and fiery punishment.


http://www.word-sunday.com/Files/b/26-b/A-26-b.html

Larry Broding
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