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Podcast: West End UMC Podcast Audio Podcast
Episode: Disciples and Apostles
Description: As we continue to read from the Gospel of Mark, today’s reading offers an opportunity to talk about the development of his followers from disciples to apostles. The word, “disciple,” means one who learns, and we have seen many instances of followers learning from Jesus. In this passage Jesus is sending out the twelve apostles, two by two, and “apostle” means one who is sent. We are ourselves, of course, disciples and apostles, called continually to be in a posture of learning and then to be sent out as equipped by Jesus to do ministry. Today in the service of communi...