What Can A Study Of St Marks Gospel Tell Christians Today About What It Means To Be A Disciple?

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Connor Watts

Year 10

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What Can A Study Of St Marks Gospel Tell Christians Today About What It Means To Be A Disciple?

        St Marks Gospel has many stories that tell Christians many things. Something that it teaches Christian’s is what it means to be a disciple. Disciple is the term used to describe a follower of the doctrines of a teacher or school of thought. The disciples of Jesus went out to preach in His name. Christians today try to be followers of Jesus like the twelve disciples were. However the disciples were not always perfect followers of Jesus.

        Firstly Jesus tries to show that a good disciple must make sacrifices. A story that tells Christians that disciples needed to make sacrifices is, “The Widow at the Treasury”. In this story many rich men came in to the temple treasury and Jesus, who was sitting nearby, watched as they dropped in a lot of money. Jesus then saw a poor widow come along and drop in two little copper coins. He then told his disciples that the widow had put more in the offering box than all the others. When Jesus told His disciples that the widow had put in “more”, he was speaking metaphorically. She gave all that she could give to God, hoping that because of her kindness, God would help her. This tells Christians that Jesus wanted his disciples to be like this, to give all they could to God.

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        Jesus tells His disciples, what they will need to do to one of His followers. A story in St Marks Gospel that tells Christians what the disciples would have to do is, “The Cost of Discipleship”. In this story Jesus called His disciples together and told them, that if they wanted to be one of His disciples they must, “forget self, carry his cross, and follow me. For whoever wants to save his own life will lose it; but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it”.  When Jesus told them to, “forget self”, ...

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