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Mark 7:37
Mark 7:31-37
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Few things are more distasteful than a rotten apple. What might have been a bright red delicious and nutritious piece of fruit has now become an ugly brown, wrinkled piece of garbage. And we all know what happens if a bad apple is left in the basket with the good apples! The decay will spread. “One bad apple spoils the bushel,’ says the old axiom.
Another old axiom is about the weak link in a chain: “A chain is only as strong as its weakest link.” If a grand piano is suspended from a chain three stories above the ground and one link decides to go on a coffee break, we can only hope that the Maestro carries insurance.
Do the “bad apple” and “weak link” axioms really apply to human lives? Is it true, for example, that a family is only as good as its weakest member — or a church, or a nation? We may wish to apply these principles to…
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