What We Need To Do (Mark 12:28-34)
We're going to the beach!
This week at Grace, we're having one worship service at 10 am at Eisenhower Park, the bluff overlooking the ocean in Seal Beach. It's a block from our church building, so you can just walk down 8th street and find us set up out there. We'll have a chair for you, so just bring yourself and your Bible, and you'll be ready to go.
The outdoor worship service will be a full Sunday liturgy, including singing, praying, and a sermon. We're continuing our Mark series this week with the "Greatest Commandment" (Mark 12:28-34), where Jesus defines our relationship with God's law. I'm grateful it lined up for us to do this during a baptism Sunday, because this passage beautifully describes the good life Jesus saves his followers into.
See you Sunday at the beach!
In Christ,
Pastor Bob
28 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, “Which commandment is the most important of all?” 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” 32 And the scribe said to him, “You are right, Teacher. You have truly said that he is one, and there is no other besides him. 33 And to love him with all the heart and with all the understanding and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices.” 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, “You are not far from the kingdom of God.” And after that no one dared to ask him any more questions.
- Mark 12:28-34