Too Close for Comfort
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Too Close for Comfort
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"He is not God of the dead but of the living." — Mark 12:27
There's a question running beneath the surface of this Sunday's passage that's worth sitting with: Why did Jesus disrupt the religious establishment so completely and why does he so rarely disrupt us?
In Mark 12:13–27, the Pharisees, Herodians, and Sadducees come at Jesus one after another — each group more sophisticated than the last, each convinced they can trap him with a clever question. About taxes. About marriage. About resurrection. And Jesus moves through every one of them with an ease that leaves them marveling and speechless.
But Pastor Rob turns the camera on us. Because the uncomfortable truth isn't that those religious leaders opposed Jesus, rather, how casual they were about it. How comfortable. And if we're honest, we're not so different. We've learned to give Jesus just enough space to comfort us without letting him close enough to disrupt us. We've built carefully curated spiritual lives where he stays in his lane, present but managed, near but safely contained.
This sermon names that pattern plainly and pastorally. And it calls us toward something more honest — a faith that makes room for a Jesus who won't stay in a box.