"Who do you say that I am?" 2.28.21.

2.28.21. “Who do you say that I am?” Have you ever asked someone what they thought of you? Have you wondered what your eulogy might one day say? “Take up your cross” is Jesus’s invitation to live with integrity. It is an invitation we cannot fully entertain until we have entertained the reality of our own death and the impact of our life on this earth. “Who do you say that I am?’ Jesus asks the disciples, but we are to wonder the same thing about our own witness. Rev. Beth Waltemath considers the dance between identity and integrity in which Jesus leads his disciples beginning with Mark 8:31-9:1 and wonders at the end of this pandemic “Who would they say that we are?”