{"id":117,"date":"2016-04-24T05:40:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T05:40:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/parklands.org.nz\/?p=117"},"modified":"2016-04-28T04:42:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T04:42:47","slug":"mark-114-20-called","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/2016\/04\/24\/mark-114-20-called\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark 1:14-20 Called"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><\/h2>\n<div>How is John\u2019s declaration of the Kingdom of God and of repentance different to Jesus\u2019\u00a0 ?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Not many of us experience the immediate and complete life change that Peter has when he begins following Jesus.\u00a0 He is dragged out of his comfortable world and ends up confronting economic, social, political and spiritual\u00a0 forces much bigger than him.<\/div>\n<div>He is invited to learn of a kingdom which has very different values to our own.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Why would he accept the invitation ?<\/div>\n<div>Imagine that you are approached by Jesus to go on the road and give up your house, family, occupation for 3 years, with no promise of money or a career path ?<\/div>\n<div>What would it be difficult to give up ?<\/div>\n<div>What would be the rewards ?<\/div>\n<div class=\"separator\"><a href=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/28\/Uqueen3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/2\/28\/Uqueen3.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Latter on in 1 &amp; 2 Peter, peter reflects on being called :<\/div>\n<div>1 Peter 1:2,15, 2:4,9,20-21,3:8-9<\/div>\n<div>What do you notice about peter\u2019s call ?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In Mark two sets of brothers get called the same way<\/div>\n<ol>\n<li>Jesus is on the way somewhere<\/li>\n<li>Jesus sees them<\/li>\n<li>He calls them<\/li>\n<li>and they drop everything to follow him.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div>Take turns telling your story with this template.\u00a0 Make sure you listen.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div>If Carragavio painted you ? How would your hands be ? What might you be holding on to ? Who might be watching ?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Peter will be called outside the normal rules of society to it\u2019s margins.\u00a0 Is there any sense of this in your life ?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is John\u2019s declaration of the Kingdom of God and of repentance different to Jesus\u2019\u00a0 ? Not many of us experience the immediate and complete life change that Peter has when he begins following Jesus.\u00a0 He is dragged out of his comfortable world and ends up confronting economic, social, political and spiritual\u00a0 forces much bigger than him. He is invited to learn of a kingdom which has very different values to our own. Why would he accept the invitation ? Imagine that you are approached by Jesus to go on the road and give up your house, family, occupation for 3 years, with no promise of money or a career path ? What would it be difficult to give up&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.parklands.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}