[Propertalk] [Sermons That Work] "Then who can be saved?" they asked Jesus.

[Joe Parrish]

October 11, 2009 - Nineteenth Sunday After Pentecost, Proper 23
Year B
By the Rev. Kirk Alan Kubicek 
(RCL) Job 23:1-9, 16-17 and Psalm 22:1-15 (Track 2: Amos 5:6-7, 10-15 and Psalm 90:12-17); Hebrews 4:12-16; Mark 10:17-31

http://www.episcopalchurch.org/sermons_that_work_115056_ENG_HTM.htm

"Then who can be saved?" they asked Jesus. 
How often we ask ourselves that very question. Oh yes, day to day we put on a good face and project an image of confidence to the world around us. Like the man in today's gospel reading who seeks Jesus to ask how he might inherit eternal life, we like to believe we know all the answers and have done all the right things.

Jesus asserts that when the rubber meets the road, one must give it all away and follow him; but that strikes us as simply impossible. And like the man in the story, we are shocked and go away unhappy at best, frustrated and defeated at worst...

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