Noticing the Growth
Mark 4:26-29 (CEB) · Tending the Soul · Communion Sunday
“The harvest is closer than you think.”
Week two of Tending the Soul sits with one of Jesus’ shortest parables, four verses about a farmer who scatters seed, sleeps, wakes, and one day discovers a harvest he can’t explain. Mark 4:26-29 lands on Communion Sunday and the kickoff of Vacation Bible School Kingdom Quest, both rituals that gather around something we receive rather than produce. The sermon asks what changes when we stop measuring our spiritual lives and start noticing what God has been growing in soil we didn’t dig.
In the manuscript below:
What John Wesley called prevenient grace, and why not knowing how growth happens is part of how the kingdom works, not a problem to solve.
The wheat harvest getting underway across McPherson County, and why nine months of real farm work still can’t grow a single head of grain.
Why “how often did I pray this week?” turns out to be the wrong question, and what noticing asks instead.
The one small practice the witness promise asks of you this week, and why noticing has to come first.
