Reset Your Rest and Muster the Rohirrim (as long as their gear is clean.) (A)
About this episode
The episode discusses the implications of breaking religious rules through the lens of a biblical story involving Jesus and the Pharisees.
We close out the RESET series this week with Mark 2, the story where Jesus and the disciples get caught snacking on raw grain in a field on the Sabbath and the Pharisees lose their minds about it. Turns out the real question is not "did they break the rules" but "why does breaking the rules feel like the end of the world." Jesus answers by dragging up an old story about David walking into a chapel and demanding bread under a flimsy cover story (his gear was clean, for the record, that part mattered a lot to the priest). Mike, Paul, and Jeremy dig into fear-based legalism, what the Pharisees were actually so afraid of, and why a law meant to set people free can turn into another kind of prison. Bree joins from across the state via iPad, so you get roughly one Inception joke and several rounds of Lord of the Rings trivia none of you asked for. Somewhere in there is an actual answer to what makes a Sabbath practice good instead of just another rule to keep. Music from #Uppbeat https://uppbeat.io/t/doug-organ/code-switching License code: ACLEIQKGDLNBXD8L
People in this episode
Host: Pastor Mike Desotell
Guest: Bree
Topics covered
- Sabbath
- legalism
- fear
- freedom
- religious rules
- spirituality
Keywords
- Sabbath practice
- fear-based legalism
- Pharisees
- David
- spiritual freedom
- Mark 2
- Lord of the Rings trivia
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Pharisees
Books & works: Lord of the Rings, Mark 2
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