This really is one of the most bizarre encounters in Jesus' life.

Both people in this story came to Jesus for one thing, but ended up with something far greater.

Yet Jesus required a lot more of them than they were expecting.

Jiris came to Jesus in need of a healing.

What he got was a resurrection. Welcome back to the Summit Life podcast. I'm Molly Vitovich.

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Today we're diving into a new teaching series

called The Difficult Sayings of Jesus. We're putting aside our assumptions we may have held and

taking a fresh look at who Jesus really is and what he taught. We're headed to the book of Mark.

Here's Pastor J.D.

We are starting a new series this weekend called The Difficult Sayings of Jesus.

One of the biggest misconceptions about Jesus was that he was this tranquil, unflappable religious guru who just went around spreading peace and love and groovy vibes nothing could be

further from the truth the real jesus was divisive he was polarizing you either loved him or you hated him

and in fact that's kind of how you know you've encountered the real thing is you either love him or you

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