How to Approach Jesus - Mark 7

There's an entire industry in America dedicated to influencing powerful people. Lobbyists know the right time, the right gift, the right approach. So how do you approach the most powerful person in the universe? In Mark 7, a Gentile woman with a demon-possessed daughter does everything ""wrong""—wrong ethnicity, wrong gender, wrong timing, wrong credentials. Jesus calls her a dog. And her response becomes one of the most remarkable moments in the entire Gospel. This sermon is about how she got it when the disciples didn't, and what her humble, hopeful, unshakable faith teaches us about coming to Jesus with empty hands and a desperate heart.