Text: Understand Mark's interpretation of Jesus as teache

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Welcome toSEASON TWO

• SALT

• Four - Season 2

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SALT Session 4

• JESUS AS TEACHER AND HEALER
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  and some seed fell on rich
  soil and produced fruit. Mark 48

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Welcome, Gather

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Opening Prayer

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Goals

• Text Understand Marks interpretation of Jesus
  as teacher and healer
• Spiritual Explore the meaning of miracle stories
  and parables as invitation to faith
• Action Recognize our need to respond to Jesus as
  teacher and healer

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Leadership Focus

• Concerns, tasks, means and leadership
• Member
• Facilitators
• Evaluation of the facilitating team
• Hospitality Tasks
• Next Week
• Prayer Tasks
• Facilitator/ Recorder Tasks
• 10 minute evaluation with Facilitators/Recorders

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Small Group
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Break

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Review Session 3

• Elements Develop Marks Narrative
• The Drama Builds
• Power Struggle (11-13)
• Messianic Secret (a misnomer)
• Story Types
• Myth in Mark/Parable
• Who is Jesus?

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Mark 114-821

• Parables
• Miracles
• Announce that the Reign of God is at hand
• Reflect the universal mission of Jesus
• Show us Marks Christology

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Jesus Speaks in Parables

• Jesus was a skilled teacher, speaker
• Used literary forms from prophetic/wisdom
  tradition
• Parable used most frequently (as did Ezekiel)
• Favored Rabbinic storytelling method
• Parables often puzzling sayings, strong images
• Purpose is to confront not clarify

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Parable Literary Form

• Greek parabole root meaning from placing two
  items side by side to compare them
• Hebrew masai (pl. masalim) which covers a much
  wider variety of literary forms (metaphors,
  similes, allegories, riddles)
• Objective not literal comparison, not comparison
  of details of the story, but of the situation as
  a whole

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Recent Scholarship re Parables

• Reflection of daily lives of ordinary First
  Century people living in Palestine
• Shows how the form developed
• Poetic as much as rhetorical (prose)
• Narrative (when read as stories)
• Drama

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Marks Use of Parables

• Six parables, plus parable-like sayings
• All, except the parable of the seed, are found in
  Mark and Luke
• Characteristics of Marks parables
• Rural conditions, village life, farming, nature
• Only 121-11, Parable of the Tenants/Wicked
  Husbandmen, has interaction of persons, placed
  apart from others

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Parables In Mark

• 43-9 Sower
• 426-29 Seed growing secretly Kingdom
• 430-32 Mustard seed Kingdom
• 121-11 Wicked husbandmen
• 1328-29 Fig tree
• 1334-37 Doorkeeper

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Parable like sayings of Mark

• 219-20 Guests of the bridegroom
• 221-22 Patched garment, old wineskins
• 323-27 Beelzebub parables
• 421-25 The Sayings of Mark
• 71-23 Riddle on things that defile

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Church Interprets Parables

• Meaning often illusive
• changes with audience
• Exegesis may determine boundaries of incorrect
  interpretation
• still leaves broad field for valid interpretation
  / application by individuals communities

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What Is A Miracle?

• Gospels take miracles for granted
• Definition in Scripture differs from popular
• Jesus cautions people 1322-23
• Modern scientific view different
• In Scripture, God works directly in creation
• Scripture has no conception of unified system of
  natural law as in Greek world or modern theology

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Etymology

• Latin miraculum, something to be wondered at
  appears nowhere in Christian Scriptures or
  LatinVulgate
• Hebrew translated into English Bibles as
  miracles
• Hebrew has no word for nature and no word
  corresponding with miracle
• Greek dynamis in the Synoptics, act of power
• Translated into English as Miracle
• Semeion sign rather than miracle evidence of
  intervention of God

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Miracles As Literary Form

• Common form of stories from antiquity
• Scholars distinguish
• between nature and healing
• Doubt
• Apologetic purpose/reputation of Jesus

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Hebrew Scripture/Early Church

• Miracles in Hebrew Scripture
• For individuals are rare except Elijah/Elisha
• Jesus called another Elijah, even Elisha
• Miracles in the early church
• Part of oldest known Christian sources
• Q and the Petrine kerygma
• Taken for granted as characteristic of the Church
  by Paul 1 Cor. 1228

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Miracles in Mark

• 129-31 Cure of Peters mother-in law
• 140-45 Cure of leper
• 21-12 Cure of paralytic
• 31-6 Man with withered hand
• 435-41 Calming of the storm
• 51-20 Healing of Geresene demoniac
• 631-44 First Miracle of the loaves

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Miracles, continued

• 645-52 Jesus walks on water
• 724-30 Cure of Canaanites daughter
• 731-37 Healing of a deaf man
• 81-10 Second miracle of loaves
• 822-26 Cure of blind man at Bethsaida
• 914-29 Cure of epileptic demoniac boy
• 1046-52 Cure of two blind men at Jericho

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Reign of God Announced

• Miracles/Parables announce Reign at hand -
  becomes invitation to discipleship
• Open ended invitation waits for response
• Miracles are sign of Gods care

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Universal Mission of Jesus

• Miracles show Jesus
• Power
• Universality of his mission

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Christology Who is Jesus?

• First parables,323-27
• Show Jesus as herald who overcomes Satan
• Parables of chapter 4, the seed parables
• Promote Marks theme of Messianic secret

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Discipleship Then Now

• Discipleship entails preaching the Good News
• In the time of Jesus
• Now, we are Good News when we work on healing
  old hurts and relationships in our lives
• Discipleship entails an inclusive attitude
• Recognizing the universality of Jesus mission
• Developing an inclusive attitude in our hearts
• Discipleship means continually asking
• Who is Jesus?

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Dare to Dream

• God is in our midst
• Most scholars understand the reign of God as a
  tentative metaphor

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ACTION

• Recognize our need to respond to Jesus as teacher
  and healer
• For next week
• Read Mark 822 1052

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Closing Prayer