When the Spirit Moves | Family Ties, June 6, 2021

June 6, 2021
Mark 3:20-35

Throughout his ministry, beginning in Capernaum, continuing to the cross when he told a disciple and his mother, “Here is your mother. Woman here is your son,” Jesus created a new family, and frankly, it looked and continues to look different than many expect.

Those that were once out are now in.
Those unable to be healed are now whole.
Those relegated to the outskirts of the community are welcomed home with open arms, with a banquet fit only for a prodigal returning home.

This new family includes all of the people who look, think, and act like us, and all of the people who do not look, think or act like us. This new family includes every person excluded for whatever reason, especially those excluded because fear and bigotry were embraced more than the grace extended to us from God in Christ. This new family includes every person excluded by the church, where judgment is embraced more than love.
This is a family, we are a family-centered on the One who has promised us, assured us by his amazing grace, that all of creation will be made whole. A family held in the love of our Creator. A family empowered by wholly the Holy Spirit to engage in our own Capernaum campaign so that as we embrace one another exiting a year of separation everyone will know the love of their Creator, they would feel the amazing grace of Christ, and be filled themselves with the power of the Holy Spirit.