Mark 3:7–19 | Pastor Jason Smith FBC Boerne — Gospel of Mark Series

"I would like three dollars worth of Gospel, please. Not too much. Just enough to make me happy, but not so much that I become weird."

D.A. Carson wrote that. And it names something most of us carry but rarely say — the quiet desire for the benefits of Jesus without the cost of surrender.

In this message from Mark 3:7–19, Pastor Jason Smith traces the moment Mark draws a line between the crowd and true disciples. Thousands have flooded in from across the region — all with real needs, all pressing toward Jesus. And he welcomes them. But in verse 13, the scene shifts. Jesus walks up a mountain. He calls to himself the ones he wanted. And he makes twelve — not just gathers them, makes them — into a new covenant people.

The first thing he calls them to is simply this: to be with him. Before preaching. Before authority. Before mission. With him.

That order matters. And the sermon unpacks what it means that discipleship is not primarily about obeying rules or accumulating doctrine — it's about knowing Jesus himself, walking with him long enough to begin to look like him, and then being sent as he was sent.

The message closes with the remarkable fact that the Gospel traveled from that mountaintop, through ordinary fishermen and zealots and tax collectors, through persecution and migration and kitchen table conversations — all the way to you.

"Everywhere you go, you are a sent one."

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