The MustardSeed (David Gore • Mark 4:26-34)

Sometimes a thing that appears quite insignificant can give rise to history shaping consequences. If you do not know how to value the death and resurrection of Jesus, it might appear as a quizzical fascination of history. Something modern minds would readily dismiss as mythical nonsense, but for the fact that the modern mind has largely been shaped by that very story! It is difficult for us, who have lived only after the advent of Jesus the Nazarene, to fully appreciate how much the world we take for granted has been formed as a direct consequence of this quirky gospel folk tale. But if you could interview people who lived only before it, the difference would tell you everything. All parts of the known world find refuge in the branches of this kingdom transformation!