On your mark, get set, GO

“On your mark, get set, go”.

For some reason, my two year old Son (Connor) got that in his head this weekend while we were driving to the zoo. Seeing that we ventured down to DC, my son had enough time to say it about 187 times. Being two it sounded a little more like “On ur mock ges set go”. Over and over and over again, all I could hear from the back of the car was “On your mark, get set, go”. It was a little disturbing around time #6, not to mention extremely distracting as I was going over in my mind what I was going to send to the group in preparation for Wednesday Morning. This is week three of our series and this is where the story really starts to pick up speed.
Week one was not only the intro to the story, but also intro to our series. Week two was the emotional hook, or the setting of the stage for where Jesus is going to take this parable. And now week three is where this parable really starts going. It was these three ideas that I was going over in my mind, when all of a sudden I heard from the back of the car for the 98th time…..

“On your mark, get set, go”.

That’s it…..after all if you look at it, that is how the section of Scripture is laid out. Week one we looked at the first three verses and saw that the “tax collectors and the sinners” had drawn close to Jesus to hear him and the religious leaders had complained………….” ON YOUR MARK”

Week Two we looked at the two stories that Jesus told about the lost things (Sheep/Coin), and how He had used these two stories to get everyone (emotionally) on to the same page that otherwise (intellectually) would never be on the same page………..”Get Set”

And tomorrow, week three we start the parable of the lost son “Go”

I am looking forward to seeing you guys in the AM. Please remember, this isn’t like the show Lost…..you can join us at any time throughout this series. As a matter of fact, tomorrow morning (6:30am) would be a great time to start.

On your mark, get set……

See you in the AM

D.R.