Reading: Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
Sermon: Living Into Wholeness
Mark 7:1-8, 14-15, 21-23
Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, 2 they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands,[a] thus observing the tradition of the elders, 4 and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash,[b] and there are also many other traditions that they observe: the washing of cups and pots and bronze kettles and beds.[c]) 5 So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders but eat with defiled hands?” 6 He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,
‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
7 in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as doctrines.’
8 “You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.”
Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand: 15 there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.”[a]
For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come and they defile a person.”
Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.
Thanks be to God.
Thank you to everyone who helped with this service!
Minister: Rev. Jessica McCrae
Musicians: Dr. Deborah Henry, Ian and Catharine Sadler, our choir & Pat McKee on guitar
Greeter: Linda and Bob Cooper
Scripture reader: Bob Cooper
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