For the 18th Sunday after Pentecost, Rev. Cari picked up where she left off last week, and carried on with Jesus and the disciples in the identity conversation they are having.

The text was Mark 9:30-37 and Jesus’ followers are still struggling to understand “greatness.” So Jesus introduces the concept of service, and also turns the conventional understanding of hierarchy (power) on its head.

Then he enacts the very thing he is speaking of, by bringing a child into their midst…