What if the biggest thing you’re missing is something in yourself?

In Luke 11:37–54, Jesus sits down for a meal with a Pharisee and quickly turns an uncomfortable dinner into a powerful examination of the heart. He challenges people who carefully maintained the outside, counted every detail of their religious obedience, and knew the Scriptures, yet were missing justice, the love of God, and the ways their faith was affecting others.

In “What We Miss,” Pastor Mark Garrett explores the blind spots we learn to justify, the danger of getting good at things Jesus cares less about, and how we can even hold the key to faith while making it harder for others to find the door.

Jesus’ words are challenging, but they aren’t meant simply to condemn us. They invite us to stop looking for loopholes and pray a much more courageous prayer: “Search me, God.”

Sometimes the thing we defend is the very thing Jesus wants to change.