8th Sunday after Pentecost B

The Main Character, Mark 6.7-13

Ghirlandaio,_Domenico_-_Calling_of_the_Apostles_-_1481.jpg

It's easy to put ourselves in the middle of the biblical story. Too often we think of the actions of the main character as being what we are supposed to do. The truth is though that we aren't the main characters. Really we are the side characters and that changes everything.

Image: Calling of the Disciples, Domenico Ghirlandaio [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons, Location: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ghirlandaio,_Domenico_-_Calling_of_the_Apostles_-_1481.jpg