N.T. Wright offers some helpful after words for Sunday’s gathering:

Three questions emerge for today’s church. First have we fully appreciated the way in which God’s kingdom burst in, through the work of Jesus, bringing a whole new domain in which new creation, and true redemption, had already arrived? Jesus wasn’t just challenging one or two residual bits of ‘legalism’; he was at the cutting edge of God’s new world.

Second, are there ways in which the church today can get so blinded by its commitment to what appear necessary rules that it fails to see God’s healing and restorative work breaking through?

And third, can we in any sense recapture the true spirit of the sabbath in a world where economic forces are frequently far more dehumanizing than the abused sabbath law ever was? How can we learn again what it means to living in a rhythm of work and rest, and to help one another in our wider society to do the same, without becoming legalists in the process?

- Mark for Everyone, 31-32