"Jesus Is the One Who Calls" Mark 1: 16-20

The service has an clear illustration in the ordination and installation of elders and deacons.

I am trying to be concrete in my sermons in ways that access our daily living.

Two thoughts:  When Jesus calls, we have to leave something behind.  Any stories you could share that illustrate that?  Maybe it is leaving our home behind, maybe our fear, maybe our self-consciousness, or ???


Secondly, Jesus calls us to something.  Disciples were called to new tasks.

Frederick Buechner once described calling this way: “The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.” Frederick Buechner. Wishful Thinking: A Theological ABC (1973), p. 95.