Curtis A. Bronzan

I picked up Ched Myers’ volume Binding the Strong Man at the Fuller Bookstore today, in preparation for an upcoming sermon series on the Gospel of Mark at the religious community I serve. I’m really looking forward to journeying through Mark – the earliest account of the life of Jesus of Nazareth – and am hoping we can go slowly, taking the entire year to do it.

Myers’ book has been on my wish list for a while, so being able to read it along with fellow companions at the church will be an added bonus for me – and hopefully for those I get to journey with as well. Check out the conclusion to his preface:

It is my hope that this commentary might stimulate further work along similar lines, in Mark or in other biblical texts. But above all it is offered, as the Gospel itself is, to discipleship communities, however discouraged and weary, as part of our ongoing search for renewed direction and hope in our struggle to follow the way of Jesus in difficult times. A true reading of Mark compels us to come to terms afresh with our faith and most certainly our lack of faith (Mk 9:24). I pray that this study might help Mark to speak, and the reader to have “ears to hear,” the good news that promises yet to overthrow the structures of domination in our world.