Digest: What Will You Do, and Who Will You Tell?

The first two questions are about seeing. These last two are about doing, and they’re the reason the whole thing is worth your time.

3. What will I obey this week?

Not “what should people do.” What will you do — and when. “Be kinder” isn’t an answer, because nobody can tell on Friday whether it happened. “I will sit with Sam at lunch on Tuesday” is an answer. Four friends in this story did something specific, awkward and slightly destructive to get their friend in front of Jesus. Copy the specificity, not the shovel.

4. Who will I tell?

Name one person. Not “everybody” — one. It might be the thing you found out about God, or it might just be the story itself, told the way you told it back in chapter 2. You already know it well enough. That’s what the telling back was for.

At the end of Mark 2:1–12 the whole town is saying “we’ve never seen anything like this.” Nobody had to organise that. They had seen something, so they said something.

A name and a day. That’s what makes it real.

Try it: Finish both sentences out loud. “This week I will ______, on ______.” And “I’m going to tell ______.”