Boundaries Redefined

Boundaries Redefined. Mark 7 on defilement. 
Jesus ventures into places and among people at the thresholds. He challenges perceptions about the boundaries between purity and pollution, inside and outside. When the boundaries on which we rely to order our lives and to maintain high walls around our sense of security become unstable — or shattered — we must ask: what else might Jesus reorder? Jesus situates himself at the borderlands, because his character and compassion extends wholeness and holiness to places beyond the presumed limits. Holiness shows itself to be uninterested in conforming to the way things presumably have to be.