Dr. Bingham’s Lesson for November 13, 2011
Series in Mark
“Uncleanness of the Heart makes a Man Unclean” – Mark 7:1-23
The monastics were engaged in a radical search for authenticity.
Rationale for the rise of monasticism: When Christians started becoming
complacent and focused on self-fulfillment in the ease of living in the era of
state-sanctioned Christianity, some sought, through self-imposed hardship, to
return to the Christ-centered focus, brought by the hardship of persecution
in earlier times.
Isaiah 29:13
Mark 7:20
It’s what comes out of a man that makes him unclean.
