Somewhere along the way, most of us picked up the idea that faith is an inside job. The real you is your heart, your soul, the invisible part, and your body is just the vehicle carrying it around. It is why "saving souls" can sound like the whole point of Christianity, why heaven sounds like leaving, and why the most physical parts of your life, what you eat, whether you actually show up, a body that is wearing out faster than you would like, can feel spiritually beside the point. But that version of the story has a problem it cannot solve. If Jesus came to save souls, why did He need a body? And why, after the resurrection, does He still have one?In this first message of our series Embodied, Pastor Luke Heirendt walks through Mark 5, where Jesus is on His way to heal a dying girl and stops for a woman who has been bleeding for twelve years. She is sick, she is unclean, and she is not supposed to be in that crowd at all. What Jesus does next refuses every shortcut available to Him. He does not let the healing happen and keep walking, as though only her body mattered. He does not tell her the bleeding is beside the point, as though only her soul mattered. He turns around, deals with her shame along with her sickness, and tells her that her faith has saved her, using the same word the New Testament uses for the forgiveness of sins. From dust and breath in Genesis to an empty tomb outside Jerusalem, this is a physical story from beginning to end. God saves people. Not parts of them.For more info about our church community, or to connect with us, go to www.creekside.cc