How does one “grieve the Holy Spirit?” In Mark 3:20-29, Jesus suggests that failing to name or admit to injustice witnessed or experienced is the sin that grieves the Spirit of God. Join Pastor Heidi as she explores this troubling passage on “binding the strong man.” This is a communion Sunday.
Throughout the summer Heidi will be using, among other sources, Ched Myers’s Binding the Strong Man: A Political Reading of Mark’s Story of Jesus (dense, but excellent) and Richard Horsley’s Hearing the Whole Story (more accessible and builds on Myers’s work). Both are available as ebooks for anyone wishing to go deeper.