Meditations in Mark - chapter 7

I have been blessed with a number of extraordinary friendsOne of them was incredibly creative- he could hardly complete a project, because he was constantly distracted by new idea• sometimes I would call him when feeling depressed• his creativity was so inspiring, it changed my outlook- he agreed to fill-in for me as a guest speaker• it took him awhile to come up with a title for his talk, but eventually emailed it to me:“Don’t Be the Kind of Christian There Are Already Too Many Of”• Jesus gave talks on that same topic◦ he said that regarding charity, prayer, or fasting, you must not be like the hypocrites (Mt. 6:5)and in chapter 23, he tells his disciples,The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat [to teach], so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For the preach, but do not practice (Mt. 23:2-3)◦ he follows that statement with a long list of the wrong things they did