Welcome to the GBC Sermon Podcast, a weekly podcast from Gymea Baptist Church in Sydney Australia. I'm Marc Rader, senior pastor here at GBC and I hope that you are available to hear the invitation of Jesus.
This week Matt Willis reflects on the healing of the leper in Mark 1:40-45. In this passage, Jesus' willing and compassionate interaction with a man who had experienced rejection, isolation, and exclusion is front and centre.
Before we get to the message, let me remind you to join us for the Big III, a mid-week podcast where Matt, Jess, and I sit down and unpack three big questions that were raised in the sermon. Find the Big III everywhere you listen to podcasts.
You can also download a discipleship menu for this sermon. The menus are a selection of activities that you can engage in on your own, with a friend, or even in a small group to put this message into practice in your life. Download the menu from our website gymeabaptist.org.au under the Next Steps tab.
The invitation of this passage is to come to Jesus as we are - he is willing to receive us! The expectation, of course, as followers of Jesus is that we show the same inclusive, compassionate welcome as Jesus did. As we have been received, let us receive others.
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God bless.
