1.26.24 - Mark 2:27
Discipleship is about disrupting the world around us to jostle it toward greater compassion and justice. What rules or laws need our liberative words? Who around us needs our voices for change?
Then Jesus said to them, “The Sabbath was made for people, not people for the Sabbath.
I think about this verse a lot when I’m doing trainings about how to use neo-pronouns.
Inevitably we’ll get the retort, “but they is a plural pronoun, not a singular one!” In those moments I like to remind people that language is a human construct, developed to serve human needs, and that we are not beholden to the rules if the rules don’t work anymore.
Jesus was constantly reminding the people around him that the laws of God were designed to serve people, not the other way around.
When we come across rules or norms or ways of being that no longer serve the people they were meant to, we have a duty to shift and change those things.
What rules or norms have you been living by that maybe don’t serve you or your community anymore?
Which ones do you see being enforced that need some holy disruption?
Discipleship is all about disrupting the world around us in order to jostle it toward greater compassion and justice. What rules or laws need our liberative words? Who around us needs our voices for change to happen?
--Candace Woods