Sabbath. Study. Serve.

Sabbath, Study, Serve 

Taking the Sermon Into Our Week 

Scripture of the Week: Mark 7: 1-23

From the Sermon:

The disciples were eating and the religious leaders of the time were calling them out to Jesus for having ______________.

Accepted __________ and __________  were passed down from one generation to the next.

While it looks like the disciples and scribes and Pharisees are having a disagreement about food, its actually not about the food itself. It’s really about the upholding of ____________.

The religious leaders were using external markers handed down through the generations to make a marker for ______.

Jesus goes on to say that there’s nothing on the _______ of a person that can defile, but only the things from ________.

Reflection Questions:

When we get so caught up in judging others, is it really to avoid looking at the places in our life that are defiled?

Are you more focused on the outside or the inside?

 Do you worry more about where you are with God or judging others?

 Are your traditions keeping people from the Gospel message or sharing it far and wide?

What Defiles?

Prayer:

Lord Jesus, change our hearts. Don’t just make us appear clean to others on the outside while we are defiled on the inside. Instead, cleanse us from within so we can radiate forth your light and your love, we pray. Amen.