”You Lack One Thing”

Read Mark 10.17-31

Pentecost +20B

"Lack" takes on many forms in our life. This story asks us to ponder how we might complete the sentence, "I lack ....................." All of us have at least one thing we lack, and that needs to be figured out, but the issue of lack takes on a particular meaning in this story; it is that which prevents you from a full expression of faith. What is the one thing at the core of who you are that keeps you from being the follower, the disciple, the believer, the witness that God wants and needs you to be?