Last Sunday

Tailgate Time – February 5, 2012

Last week:

It seems that maybe Jesus understood the value of spending time together and sharing food together long before we discovered the phenomenon of tailgating, a pastime that’s so popular with football game goers.  What might be some things that tailgating and connecting with one another have in common?

Bible Passage:

Mark 6:34-44 (The Message)
    When Jesus arrived, he saw this huge crowd. At the sight of them, his heart broke—like sheep with no shepherd they were. He went right to work teaching them.
    When his disciples thought this had gone on long enough—it was not quite late in the day—they interrupted: “We are a long way out in the country, and it’s very late. Pronounce a benediction and send these folks off so they can get some supper.”
    Jesus said, “You do it. Fix supper for them.”
    They replied, “Are you serious? You want us to go spend a fortune on food for their supper?”
    But he was quite serious. “How many loaves of bread do you have? Take an inventory.”
    That didn’t take long. “Five,” they said, “plus two fish.”
    Jesus got them all to sit down in groups of fifty or a hundred—they looked like a patchwork quilt of wildflowers spread out on the green grass! He took the five loaves and two fish, lifted his face to heaven in prayer, blessed, broke and gave the bread to the disciples, and the disciples in turn gave it to the people. He did the same with the fish. They all ate their fill. The disciples gathered twelve baskets of leftovers. More than five thousand were at the supper.