Pentecost 19 – Invitation to Life/Caste to Hell – Mark 9: 38-50

In this very unusual passage we explore how the church across the ages has wrestled with passages like this. What tools can we use to unpack such difficult texts? We explore the nature of God and violence and the way metaphor is used in this text to grab our attention and finally we see that in this difficult text there is an invitation to the salty life in all its fullness