{"id":2567,"date":"2007-08-29T00:10:43","date_gmt":"2007-08-29T00:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jesuscreed\/2007\/08\/missional-jesus-48.html"},"modified":"2007-08-29T00:10:43","modified_gmt":"2007-08-29T00:10:43","slug":"missional-jesus-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jesuscreed\/2007\/08\/missional-jesus-48.html","title":{"rendered":"Missional Jesus 48"},"content":{"rendered":"

Missional Jesus made powerful impressions. So powerful that once a rich man (Mark 10:17-31) comes up to Jesus and asks how he might find eternal life. Jesus’ answer surprises many today when they read the text with honesty:
\nAs Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him. \u201cGood teacher,\u201d he asked, \u201cwhat must I do to inherit eternal life?\u201d
\n18 \u201cWhy do you call me good?\u201d Jesus answered. \u201cNo one is good\u2013except God alone. 19 You know the commandments: \u2018Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.\u2019 \u201d
\n20 \u201cTeacher,\u201d he declared, \u201call these I have kept since I was a boy.\u201d
\n21 Jesus looked at him and loved him. \u201cOne thing you lack,\u201d he said. \u201cGo, sell everything you have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.\u201d
\n22 At this the man’s face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.
\n23 Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, \u201cHow hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!\u201d
\n24 The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus said again, \u201cChildren, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God! 25 It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.\u201d
\n26 The disciples were even more amazed, and said to each other, \u201cWho then can be saved?\u201d
\n27 Jesus looked at them and said, \u201cWith man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.\u201d
\n28 Peter said to him, \u201cWe have left everything to follow you!\u201d
\n29 \u201cI tell you the truth,\u201d Jesus replied, \u201cno one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel 30 will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present age (homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields\u2013and with them, persecutions) and in the age to come, eternal life. 31 But many who are first will be last, and the last first.\u201d<\/em>
\nOne very simple point: one inherits the kingdom\/eternal life by:
\n1. Following the missional Jesus who broke the Torah into two themes: Love God and love others. This is the point of the commandments.
\n2. By following the logic of Jesus to see that the second half of the commandments is how one discovers if one is doing the first half of the ten commandments. (Matthew makes this clear by adding the Jesus Creed’s second commandment: Matthew 19:19.)
\n3. By showing that one is fully devoted to following Jesus by giving up what was holding the man back: love for money and things were his “love God” substitute.
\nBy and large, this interchange expresses what Jesus always expresses when someone wants to know the essence of life with God: follow Jesus.
\nIs this evangelism? You bet it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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