Saint James Blog

Mark 9:38-41. I had always heard and even occasionally believed that the only way in was “choosing” in. Frankly, that cuts a lot of people out of the equation. So what are we to make of the saying of Jesus that, “whoever is not against us is for us?”  I always thought that you had to choose “for”, not simply not choose “against.” It’s even got me using double-negatives, which would make my 8th grade English teacher cringe. Yet at Jesus’ word, those who are not against us are for us Jesus-followers. Makes me think about all those people I’ve labeled outsiders…