Greatness: A Different Kind

Read Mark 9.30-37

Pentecost +17B

Greatness, we assume, implies power. It means accomplishment, fame, wealth, and other things that allow you to do something, such as influencing people to go your way. But that’s not what Jesus says, and to drive his point home, he scoops up a young child into his arms and tells them: “Whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me” (v. 37)