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In your hometown
This morning I read Mark 6, and read "A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household" that Jesus quoted in Nazareth.
Yesterday morning, I read in Mark 5, "Go home to your friends and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and how he has had mercy on you."
And it made me ponder the mixture of these two verses. Their seems to be a sense in which the people who knew you growing up, you ought to go witness to them. God intercepted your life, and your hometown friends should know about it. And there is another sense, it seems, that a man that God has gotten ahold of can have the Spriit of God in him, but his hometown peeps have a hard time taking him seriously.