The Question of the Day helps prepare you for next Sunday’s focus text in worship. These questions are posted here each day offering an opportunity for discussion. (Just click in the title of this post and you will be taken to the discussion window.) Try it out for a week and see how Jesus will use your time of pondering upon God’s word to deepen your faith.
Today’s question is: How do we welcome Jesus when we welcome a child?
This week’s text for the seventeenth Sunday after Pentecost is from Mark 9:30-37 (NRSV)
30They went on from there and passed through Galilee. He did
not want anyone to know it; 31for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them,
“The Son of Man is to be betrayed into human hands, and they will kill
him, and three days after being killed, he will rise again.” 32But they did not understand what he was saying and were
afraid to ask him.
33Then they came to Capernaum; and when he was in the house he
asked them, “What were you arguing about on the way?” 34But they were silent, for on the way they had argued with one
another who was the greatest. 35He sat down, called the twelve, and said to them,
“Whoever wants to be first must be last of all and servant of all.” 36Then he took a little child and put it among them; and taking
it in his arms, he said to them, 37Whoever welcomes one such child in my name
welcomes me, and whoever welcomes me welcomes not me but the one who sent me.