Welcome to Christianity Explored! Join us for a meal, followed by our third session investigating the truth of Christianity, with Mark's Gospel as our guide.

In the last session, we saw that Jesus is the Christ (God's only chosen King) and God's Son. You can see a short summary of the last session here. In this session, we will see what Mark Tells us about why Jesus came.

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Session Three Notes

"I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners" — Mark 2:17

• The reason the world is not the way it's supposed to be is because we are not the way we're supposed to be.
• Jesus tells us that "sin" comes "from within," from our "hearts" (Mark 7:20–22)
• Each of us has a heart problem. We often treat each other and our world in a shameful way, and we treat God in that way too.
• We should love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. But we never manage to do this.
• We've all rebelled against God, our loving Creator. The Bible calls this "sin."
• Jesus came to cure our heart problem, the problem of our sin. He came for people who realize they're bad, not for people who think they're good.
• Jesus lovingly warns us about hell because he does not want us to go there. Our sin means we're all in danger, whether we realize it or not (Mark 9:43–47).