I can almost picture the disciples faces. "No, not the drink-my-blood speech! We'll never get on the list of fastest-growing movements if you keep asking them to eat you!

David Platt
I can almost picture the disciples faces.
I can almost picture the disciples faces.
I can almost picture the disciples faces.
I can almost picture the disciples faces.
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When the disciples in the New Testament were faced with a choice between eating and drinking, they eagerly chose the latter. Since then, we’ve all heard the story of the “Eucharistic miracle” in which Jesus miraculously appeared to be eating and drinking. It turns out that this was not a divine vision but based on what was already written in the Bible. The Gospel of Mark says that when he called them to eat, they were reluctant and asked him to go away.

Afterward, when he was gone, they remembered that he had said he would send them something to eat when he came back. So, they started looking for him and found him in a house where they gave him something to eat and drank wine with him. He told them: “My children, you don’t know what you are doing! You don’t know what will happen tomorrow.

Wherever I go, you will not be able to follow me because of your human limitations.”

Source: Radical: Taking Back Your Faith From The American Dream

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