What's it like to grow up in a small town? Was Jesus from a small town? What were his experiences like there? Why did the people from Nazareth not have faith in him? What role does faith play now? In what should we have faith?
"It can't happen here?" is a reflection based on Mark 6:1-6.
Now Jesus left that place and came to his hometown, and his disciples followed him. On the sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and many women and men who heard him were astounded, saying, "Where did this man learn this?" And "What wisdom has been given him?" And "Such deeds of power work done by his hands! Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary and brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon, and are not his sisters here with us?" And they were offended over him. Then Jesus said to them, "Prophets are not without honor, except in their hometown, and among their own kin, and in their own house." And he could do no deed of power there, except on a few sick people laying hands and curing them. And Jesus was amazed at their unbelief. Then, he went about among the villages teaching.
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