Do We Worship God or Our Traditions?

Do We Worship God or Our Traditions?

When we look around our world right now, it’s easy to get discouraged and think what next, what next can go wrong. When we listen to this text for today in the context of where we are in this century, in this time, and we think, “the disciples are being criticized for not washing their hands or washing their dishes” and we’re like, “but isn’t that just kind of a normal thing you should be doing,” especially now should we not be washing our hands and washing things after we used them. I mean we’re sanitizing pens, we’re sanitizing everything before we touch them and it seems like Jesus might be a little bit off on this one.