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This week’s Theme: Symbols of the church
This week will follow up on last week’s teaching about traditions. Every church does things for a reason. Sometimes the reason is only “because we have always done it that way”, and nobody really remembers why. Other times the tradition is steeped in meaning. So why do we do the things we do at St. Andrew’s? Do some of the things we do have theological meaning? Today we will explore some of those traditions in the Presbyterian church.
This week’s Gospel lesson is Mark 8:31-34
He then began to teach them that the Son of Man must suffer many things and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and after three days rise again. He spoke plainly about this, and Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
But when Jesus turned and looked at his disciples, he rebuked Peter. “Get behind me, Satan!” he said. “You do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.”
Then he called the crowd to him along with his disciples and said: “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves and take up their cross and follow me.
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