Jesus Doesn't Fit Into Your Box
The religious leaders of the day became increasingly frustrated because Jesus didn’t minister in the way they deemed appropriate. We must stop trying to fit Jesus into our religious boxes and realize that He came to do something new.
Author
Travis Agnew
Lead Pastor
Discipleship
Jesus Doesn't Fit Into Your Box
The religious leaders of the day became increasingly frustrated because Jesus didn’t minister in the way they deemed appropriate. We must stop trying to fit Jesus into our religious boxes and realize that He came to do something new.
Travis Agnew
Lead Pastor
Unmet Expectations (Mark 2:18)
- The Pharisees fasted as they miserably waited for God and the sinners feasted as they joyfully met with God.
- Jesus was unconcerned about meeting the religious expectations of the traditional legalists.
- Religious peer pressure attempts to shame us into a conformity with the system rather than a relationship with the Savior.
Unexpected Observations (Mark 2:19-20)
- Fasting is prioritizing the feasting on God over the feasting on food.
- Believers fast in their longing and feast in their belonging.
- Jesus foreshadowed His sorrowful death and promised His joyful return.
Unfit Formations (Mark 2:21-22)
- It is impossible to stitch Jesus into a tattered religious garment.
- The gospel cannot fit into an old religious system without completely bursting it wide open.
- If you are trying to fit Jesus into your tidy religious box, you have acquired the wrong box.
- Beware of:
- Unscriptural Rituals
- Systematic Works
- Reflective Religion
