The need for healing; the need to be healers

Gospel: Mark 7: 31–37
Ephphatha! Be opened!

It is not one’s rituals and outward holiness that count, it is one’s inner heart and deeds that count

Gospel: Mark 7: 1–8, 14–15, 21–23
This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me

Eating Jesus’ flesh and drinking His blood is the way to remain in Jesus and Him in us

Gospel: John 6: 51–58
If you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you will not have life in you.

Jesus was the unexpected messenger of good news; He WAS the good news!

Gospel: John 6: 41–51
Amen, Amen, I say to you, whoever believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life.

This is the only miracle found in all four gospels, which means it is an exceptional event with meaning that goes much deeper than the extraordinary feeding of those thousands.