Mark

Mark 's genius lies, not in telling a story about Jesus, but in creating conditionsunder which the reader may experience the peculiar quality of God 's good news. TheEvangelist hurries one along breathlessly, immediately, making sure that thereader lurches with the characters into one pothole after [...]
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Mark 's genius lies, not in telling a story about Jesus, but in creating conditionsunder which the reader may experience the peculiar quality of God 's good news. TheEvangelist hurries one along breathlessly, immediately, making sure that thereader lurches with the characters into one pothole after another. What is this newteaching that consorts with the flagrantly sinful, turning the pious homicidal, intimates into strangers, and mustard seeds into the greatest of all shrubs Jesus closest adherents, the Twelve, are among the mostmuddled. Who can blame them? They ask for an obscure parable 's interpretation andreceive an answer even more confounding. They are told to feed thousands with nextto nothing. Their boat almost capsizes while their teacher sleeps. As they oar inrough waters, the teacher strides the waves intending to bypass them. Putting thereader in the same boat, Mark structures conversations with Jesus that make littlesense, if any. The Twelve are craven, stupid, self-serving, and disobedient: meetthe average Christian. Besides, their hearts were hardened. Who hardens hearts?God. Should not God 's Messiah lift the burdens of those following him? What kind ofChrist heads to a cross, handing his disciples another for themselves. Do you notyet understand from the Introduction