Resilient faith is grounded in the person of Jesus Christ.
Mark is a storyteller, and the story he is telling is the story of Jesus Christ through the lens of the Apostle Peter’s stories for Roman Christians undergoing persecution.
The Christians in Rome had already heard and believed the good news of God’s saving power (Rom. 1:8) but they needed to hear it again with a new emphasis to catch afresh its implications for their lives in a difficult culture that was not supportive of their faith.
He introduces his subject – ‘the gospel of Jesus Christ’ – Mark 1:1 “The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God” – this first verse is like the title of the book – the good news of Jesus Christ.
All this to establish Mark’s thesis that Jesus is the Son of God and our response to his accounts is to repent and believe the good news…

As we begin Chapter 6, hostility from the Jewish leaders was growing and the tension was mounting. Jesus began commissioning his 12 interns to join Him as fellow workers.

Chapter 6 describes Jesus’ final visit to unbelieving Nazareth,
the commissioning of the twelve, first ministry/mission of the disciples,
the violent opposition of Herod Antipas to John the Baptist and his message of repentance,
the miraculous feeding of the 5,000 and the result of that incident,
Jesus walking on water during storm at sea, healing ministry at Genesaret…