DISCIPLE: Hope in the Gospel of Mark

We regularly find ourselves at the end of our ropes, despairing, helpless, and at the end of ourselves. What we find, however, is that when we are at the end of ourselves, God is at his beginning. In the Gospel of Mark, we meet many individuals who had nearly lost all hope – all hope except what they had in Jesus. In this three-week series, we’ll meet three of those who found in Jesus what they needed when they were at their end. Jesus was just getting started with them!

This weekend, we’ll get to know the leper and his prayer (Mark 1:40-45)

If you were a leper, it didn’t just mean you were sick and had an incurable disease. It meant you were separated from God, ostracized from society, and an outcast, both physically and spiritually unclean. So, this request of this man is astounding. He dares to approach Jesus in his need and in his uncleanness. As he did so, he lived in the “perhaps” – he wasn’t sure what Jesus would do for him, but he held to the promise of cleansing from sin, and he waited to see what he would do about this disease. To what promises of God do you hold that make you bold and unashamed before your holy and mighty Savior?