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You done messed up a-a-ron
Good evening campers!
I hope you’re all having a great time so far.
It’s been fun for me as well.
Alright, well it sounds like we have an exciting competition brewing.
How many of you have been in situations where you can say “wow I really blew it that time”?
I’m not just talking about minor mistakes, I’m talking about major ones.
A time that seemed to derail a relationship, cost you something significant.
I can remember in 2010 a time when I thought I really blew it.
I was a young college student at the time.
I was learning and growing as an individual.
I had dreams and aspirations in ministry.
I wanted to really do something for God.
But I knew I needed training and experience.
Well, there was a church that was looking for a student to lead their children’s ministry program.
Seemed like it was right up my alley.
I grew up in that style of program, so I knew what it was supposed to look like, and it was going to pay me a little money!
Perfect.
Well, things started off okay, and I was learning and growing through it all, but after a while, I really began to feel the pressure of the responsibility.
It was self-imposed, but there nonetheless.
But some of what I had to do included fulfilling filing an annual report.
Well, I failed to do so.
And then when asked about it by a man in leadership at the church, I lied about it.
I said I did indeed file the report, but in reality I did not.
Well, that bothered me that I lied, so I actually went and apologaed, and the man was very forgiving and all was well.
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.....Until the following semester came around and I had some events to plan and there were some details of the even planning that were my responsibility and I failed to do them.
Now I want you to try to imagine what this was like for me.
I come from a well-respected family that has held leadership positions in large churches and organizations for years.
I was serving in a church under a man that I deeply respected and I wanted to be like him.
I had dreams and aspirations of ministry that I was going to go out and be this great Christian leader.
I was afraid that if they learned that I failed to fulfill my responsibility, that I would look like I was lazy and not fit for leadership in ministry.
I wanted so much to make the people that I respected proud of me.
But when it came to fulfilling my responsibility, I failed.
And then I lied about it to cover it up.
Of course it was long until I was caught in my lie.
I was confronted, confessed, and then ultimately had to sit before the elder board of the church.
I had really blown it.
I had let these people down.
I felt like the very people that I was looking to for their affirmation were now ashamed of me, and that I couldn’t face them.
That’s a top five worst experience of my life moment right there.
I blew it.
I don’t know if you’ve ever experienced that.
I don’t know if you know what it’s like to royally mess things up so badly that you never want to show your face to those people again.
But I can promise you this: You will experience that at some point in life.
I know you will, because you’re human.
When that time comes you will have some decisions to make.
After you blow it, after you make a mess of things, what matters from that point forward is how you respond, what will you do after a mistake.
Will you just run with the mistake and never look back?
Will you flee and forsake those around you? Or will you assess you situation, make a U-turn, and begin to do what you can to correct things?
Today we are going to track the story of a man named Mark.
Mark is an interesting individual.
He is a man who showed a lot of promise early on in his life and even got to travel the world with the greatest evangelist to ever live.
But then he made a huge mistake.
He messed up.
He abandoned and therefore lost the trust of His friends.
How is Mark going to respond?
Now you’ll have to bear with me a little bit as we trace Mark’s story because we are going to read several passages in order to set the background and get the whole story.
The Early Years
First of all, who is Mark?
Let’s turn to the book of Acts chapter 12 where we have our introduction to this character.
Acts 12:1-12
So Peter is in jail and an angel lets him out, and Peter goes straight to this house.
The house belongs to the mother of a man called John Mark, but a lot of times he is just called Mark.
Why did Peter go to this guy’s mom’s house?
In all likelihood, this house was where the church in that city met to hear the Word of God proclaimed.
Mark’s mom is hosting the church.
What does this tell us about Mark?
Not a whole lot.
we could speculate that he and his family would have been early converts to Christianity, or that his family had some kind of status or simply a large enough home to host the church, etc.
But we really don’t know a whole lot about the situation for sure.
What’s interesting though that there are a couple high profile men in town during all of this.
If we slide back to the end of chapter eleven we read why they were there.
Now
ACts 11:27-
So there’s a famine and so the church basically collects an offering in order to help their brothers and sisters in Christ, and they send the money with Barnabas and Saul.
Saul, of course, is also known as the Apostle Paul.
Saul was his Jewish name, and Paul was his greek name.
So whenever you read Saul in the book of acts, just remember that Saul and Paul are the same person.
Barnabas was a key leader in the early church and was instrumental in helping Paul become established as a leader himself.
But Saul and Barnabas come to the city to deliver the offering that was collected to help other Christians, and when they left, guess who they took with them?
That’s right, Mark.
Acts 12:24-
Now how cool is that?
I’m sure it certainly helps that Mark and Barnabas are cousins (we learn that from the book of Colossians), but that’s still really awesome.
Mark gets to ride along with these two superstar pastors.
Barnabas and Saul were two of the key leaders in what was probably one of the biggest churches in the area.
The church in Antioch was a hub of ministry.
Very important things took place there and Barnabas and Saul were the ones doing the majority of the teaching.
This would be like if John MacArthur came to visit and then took me back with him to California.
Well alright then.
Let’s go!
So he went along.
And not only did he travel back with Barnabas and Saul, but then he gets to keep traveling with them.
Look at the beginning of chapter 13 with me
Acts 13:1-
Alright.
Now he’s part of the crew.
The Holy Spirit specifically said to send out Saul and Barnabas to accomplish the work to which they have been called.
So they head out, and who do they take with them as an assistant in this ministry?
John, whose other name was....Mark!
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