Facing Rejection

Call to Worship:

Isaiah 55: 1, 6-7

1 “Come, everyone who thirsts,

    come to the waters;

and he who has no money,

    come, buy and eat!

Come, buy wine and milk

    without money and without price.

6 “Seek the Lord while he may be found;

    call upon him while he is near;

7 let the wicked forsake his way,

    and the unrighteous man his thoughts;

let him return to the Lord, that he may have compassion on him,

    and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Sermon: Facing Rejection

Mark 6: 1-6

1 He went away from there and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. 

2 And on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? 

3 Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And they took offense at him. 

4 And Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” 

5 And he could do no mighty work there, except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. 

6 And he marveled because of their unbelief.