Mark 3

Who is your God? (inner life, worship)
Connected to that, who are you? (self-awareness, identity)
Who is your crowd? (mission, calling)
Who is your twelve? (community, belonging, counsel, chemistry)
Who is your neighbor? (both community and mission)

Jesus withdrew from those who did not want him (religious people/anti-community - scribes, Pharisees, chief priests and Herodians) and ascended a mountainside with those he wanted (the twelve he called). Creating a new community, new twelve tribes, based on the pouring out of his Spirit. Contrast to Moses on the mountainside. Jesus is greater than Moses. He calls us to himself in order to send us out to others. To be the lights in the darkness. To be in relationship with Jesus means we will face paradox. We will live in tension.