What does real greatness looks like?
In this Word for the Week, we walk the road to Jerusalem with Jesus in Mark 10:32-45, where He tells his friends and followers for a third time what is coming.
They are (as we can be) very, very slow on the uptake, and two of them ask for the best seats in his kingdom ... which proves they are!
So Jesus spells it out for them very expllicitly, and turns our world’s idea of greatness upside down.
Using the work of Oxford philosopher J. L. Austin (How to Do Things with Words), we ask what the words in this passage are actually doing, why the disciples were so slow on the uptake, and why Mark 10:45 is not just a statement but a deed: “the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
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Series: Discovering Mark
Word for the Week with Simon Bowkett (WelshRev), Y Grwp (Grace Rural Wales Partnership, Registered Charity No. 1170827)
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