According to the Oxford English Dictionary the word counterintuitive means “contrary to intuition or to common-sense expectation (but often nevertheless true).” So to say something is counterintuitive does not mean that it is faulty, absurd, contradictory or unreasonable—it just means that we do not readily understand it because it goes against the way we normally think. The fact is: most aspects of the Christian faith are both counterintuitive and counter-cultural! Most of the concepts that we will be considering today will be contrary to what our intuition or common-sense are telling us, but nevertheless is true! We’ll be looking at four different issues in this passage. First, we’ll consider, why did Jesus need for extended times of prayer? Why did He need partners in the ministry? Why would people go to a man wondering around in the desert to be healed? And why would Jesus teach the things He did to the crowds? What He said made no sense at all from their perspective!