The Path to Greatness - Mark 9:30-50 - Gospel of Mark: A Journey of Following Jesus

The world is made up of all kinds of people: dog people and cat people; mountain people and beach people; morning people and evening people; right-brained people and left-brained people; coffee people and anything-but-coffee people. And the list could go on. But among all of the incredible diversity of interests, values, and idiosyncrasies of humans, all of us are strangely similar in one area of interest: self-interest. Self-interest is one of the few things that unifies us as the human race, and it has a more powerful grip and it takes a greater toll on all of us than we could ever imagine. In the midst of a me-first world, though, Jesus gives us an entirely different example for us to follow.