Brian McLaren, speaker, activist, and bestselling author of Faith after Doubt, Do I Stay Christian?, and, most recently, Life after Doom, preaches on Mark 9:38-50. McLaren begins by explaining the migration of humans from their beginnings on the African continent to the ends of the world, and how they often tried to distinguish themselves from each other through tribal markers. He wonders: “Is that all religion is: a tribal marker?” In today’s passage, Jesus urges us to move past tribal religion to the religion of God’s kingdom. Listen as McLaren explains how to make this shift.
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