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SUMMARY:Family Communion
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DESCRIPTION:Family Communion for the 20th Sunday after Trinity. Celebrant 
 the Revd Adetola Badejo.\n\nFirst reading: Hebrews 4.12-16\nGospel: Mark 1
 0. 17-31\n\nToday's Gospel is the challenging story of Jesus and the rich 
 young man. The point of the story is not that wealth is inherently evil\, 
 but that it should never be more important than following Christ. The Gosp
 el writers were master storytellers\, and good stories in the past were of
 ten intentionally open-ended\, so that listeners could discuss what might 
 have happened next\; in this case\, we don't know\, apart from that the yo
 ung man went away sad. Perhaps he reflected on what Christ had said\, real
 ised that  the mere possession of wealth didn't make him happy\, and at so
 me future time came back. The story invites us to think how we might respo
 nd\, and to consider what our personal obstacles might be.\n\nThe image is
  a part of 'Christ and the Rich Young Ruler' by the late nineteenth-centur
 y German painter Heinrich Hoffman. Hoffman excelled and specialised in pai
 ntings of the life of Christ\; here\, he powerfully captures the point tha
 t even as Jesus told the young man the painful truth he needed to hear\, h
 e loved him.
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LOCATION:Kidbrooke\, St Nicholas
URL:https://www.achurchnearyou.com/church/671/service-and-events/events/10
 98542/
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