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Why Do You Call Me Good?
Mark 10:17-31
If you’ve study the gospels, you know that Jesus was not one to stay cloistered away in a synagogue. He went out to where the people were, spoke their language and related to their everyday lives. He walked among the common folk and spoke of the Kingdom of God in common, ordinary terms. For example, he said the kingdom was like a farmer sowing seed, a woman sweeping the house, a shepherd looking for a lost sheep.
It’s this Jesus-for-the-common-man that I’ve been trying to get across in this sermon series on the Questions Jesus Asked. I like to think of Jesus as someone we can relate to, someone who asks simple questions and expects straight answers.
Take the question for today: “Why do you call me good?” How would you answer that? Why do you call Jesus good? Not that he wasn’t good. Scripture says, “For him who knew no sin.” (2 Corinthians 5:21) Good doesn’t get any better than that. My point is we have to be careful – to focus too much on Jesus’ goodness is to put him on a pedestal out of reach.
