Our Stories I think that in your Sunday school class today it would be well to ask different people in the class what communion, what Lord's Supper celebrations, have meant to them. Jesus says, anyone who has ears to hear, listen. In these parables Jesus explains for the first time in the Gospel of Mark what the kingdom of God is like. It's like a sower who goes out to sow. It's like a seed that is planted and grows secretly.
Nobody knows how.
It's like a tiny mustard seed that becomes the biggest of the shrubs. Our Response Think this week about the parables and how God's kingdom can become more real in your life, your family, and your community. Traditions aren't necessarily always wrong. Sometimes traditions give meaning and direction to life. But this text calls us to sort through the issue of whether traditions are life giving or whether traditions oppress and stifle the Spirit and somehow lead us away from God.