Mark 2 Session 2

My house is being vandalised, or that is what it seems. There are four men on the roof with roof destruction tools. They seem to be so determined to get in I don't know what to do. I have a house full of guests well I call them guests, I invited a man called Jesus who I had met on the streets around where I live. He had been very forthright in his approach in talking about "The kingdom of God" and "Repentance". As a devout man I had been interested in what he had to say. Then one day I saw him heal someone, yes I mean heal, you know make them better. Apparently he had done this kind of thing before. Well you can image my surprise at something so radical. Anyway from that moment on I decided I needed to find out more about this guy.


In my search I found out that he was a carpenter's son from a back water called Nazareth. He apparently, at the age of 12 held some very deep meaning conversations with some very devout scholars and they had been amazed at what he had been telling them. It was as if he had been taught by some of the best scholars around yet he was only 12.

But he had something that was different and I wanted to know what made him tick.

The more I searched, the more interested I became in this man, who seemed to be more than just a man. I mean he can heal people.


I decided that I would try and get to know this man, something in me had come alive, I suppose you could call it 'a thirst for the truth', so I started to follow him around and observe his lifestyle when he was in town. You see, he was a bit of a nomad you were never sure where he was going to turn up next. Anyway just by chance I happened to be near him and I had the opportunity to invite him back to my house, don't ask me how it happened I don't know but there I was talking with him and asked if he would like to come back. This over whelming desire to know the truth about this man and his teachings were beginning to overtake me and, rightly or wrongly I was becoming consumed with a desire to know this Jesus and where he got his 'powers'. To my surprise he agreed. In hind sight I found out that if anyone asks they will receive and that he had said "All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them". (John 14:23)

It was at that moment when he agreed to come to my house that I realised that this man was more than a man and that he just maybe the messiah that we had all been waiting for. I was so excited, this Jesus was coming to my home, at my invitation. I did not know what was going to happen next but my journey had begun.