The nature of discipleship

  • The call of the first disciples   Mk 1: 14-20
  • The call of Levi                         Mk 2: 13-17
  • The appointing of the 12          Mk 3: 13-19
  • The sending out of the 12        Mk 6: 7-13

The cost of discipleship

  • The true family of discipleship   Mk 3: 31-35
  • Suffering as a disciple                Mk 8: 31-38
  • True greatness      Mk9: 33-37 - Mk10: 17-31,35-40

The problems of discipleship                

  • Mk9: 14-29
  • Mk10: 41-45
  • Mk12: 41-44
  • Mk14: 27-42
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  • Mk14: 66-72

What it means to be a disciple…

  • A disciple must do as he is told immediately without a question – “at once they left their nets and went with him” (MK 1: 18)
  • Rejection – “they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the hired men and went with Jesus”(MK 1: 20)
  • Must be obedient – “Jesus ordered them” (MK 6: 8)
  • No more than help out those who accept them and advice those who don’t – “If you come to a town where people do not welcome or listen to you, leave ...

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