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GROWING DEEPLY BIBLE STUDY Session 16. GOSPEL OF LUKE. Barbara Brown Taylor “Leaving Church”.
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GROWING DEEPLY BIBLE STUDY Session 16 GOSPEL OF LUKE
Barbara Brown Taylor“Leaving Church” “If I am not careful, I can begin to mistake the words on the page for the realities they describe. I can begin to love the dried ink marks on the page more than I love the encounters that gave rise to them. If I am not careful I can decide that I am really much happier reading my Bible than I am entering into what God is doing in my own time and place, since shutting the book to go outside will involve the risk of taking part in stories that are still taking shape.” -p. 107
FOCUS WORDS LEAST LAST LOST
CHARACTERISTICS Jesus Christ as universal saviour of the world Parousia delayed – Jesus Christ as beginning of history not eschatological end Link of history of Jesus to Luke’s day
CHARACTERISTICS Key instructions for disciples and Church (travel narrative 9:51-19:27) Emphasis on prayer Importance of outcasts Political innocence of Christian people
GROWING DEEPLY BIBLE STUDY Session 16 GOSPEL OF JOHN
FOCUS WORDS LOGOS LIGHT LIFE
PurposeCh. 20:30 “Many other signs Jesus did in the presence of his disciples which are not written in this book. These signs, however, are written that you might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that in believing, you might have life in his name.” Goal of John and 1 John: Instruction of the members of the community to confirm and secure Christians in the faith.
CHARACTERISTICS Two levels (gnostic influences and duality) Light/Dark 3:1-21 & Life/Death 1:1-18
CHARACTERISTICS Jesus in control 19:16-28 “I am” phrases Jesus as prophesied in Old Testament 6:22-59