Who the #&@! is Chris Marrow?

Well, if you haven't guessed already, it's me!  Yeah, it was kind of disappointing having my name wrong on everything -- not that hoards of people would have attended my lab had they known it was being led by Chris Monroe (aka DesertPastor) or anything.  In fact, at seemingly the last minute, an extra lab was offered next door to me, via videoconference with some guy named Brian McLaren.

Despite all this, I had an thoroughly enjoyable time fascilitating a fantastic discussion with a half-dozen people on the topic: "Discipleship as a Journey Within Community."  With Mark's gospel as a backdrop, we explored how Jesus' own disciples were far from refined in their followership, but rather, were mess-ups who were very much "in process."  The gospel's witness to discipleship is quite different from the popular notions of what it means to be a disciple of Jesus (especially in light of our prior discussions with Todd Hunter as to how we've tended to differentiate between salvation and discipleship).

One of the women in our lab read a prayer by Walter Brueggemann to conclude our time together.  It was powerful. (see above post, Reform Our Deformed Lives)