Family
This is the sermon I preached on 6/9/24 at St. Timothy Lutheran Church . The gospel text was Mark 3:20-35. Have you ever felt like an outsider? You are with a group of people who may be friends, classmates or co-workers, or even family. You just don’t feel like you fit in. Furthermore, you’re different; on the outside. I have often felt like that. My nuclear family was more dysfunctional than my friends’. Both my parents were alcoholics. My home life was different from that of my peers. There were only a couple of close friendships that developed during my early years. I was longing for a family. I found family in Jesus and his church. Over the years, it is those relationships that supported me through the ups and downs of life. In Christ, I had found a family that loved and accepted me just as I am. Jesus struggled as well with being an outsider. In today’s gospel, he experienced family opposition as well as religious opposition from the scribes. Finally, Jesus explains who his rea