lecture - sept 15 2019

This morning, Karen Wilk, Go Local Team Leader, will explore Luke 10:1-4a with us via video. She will help us approach the text by way of Midrash, the Jewish form of Scripture interpretation. Midrash opens up an ongoing conversation with the text which is unencumbered by the need to find the right answer, get everything ‘to fit’ or avoid the tensions and questions in the passage. We have begun to wrestle or Midrash the text with the practice of dwelling that we experienced as a community last week. Today, we’ll dig around the first four verses (1-4a) of the passage you read, Luke 10:1-12, pondering and engaging with its context and ours, inviting the Spirit to help us explore and participate in God’s story and-- its’ implications as we seek to be a community bearing witness to ‘The Kingdom of God come near’ right where we live (Luke 10:9, 11).

This morning, Karen Wilk, Go Local Team Leader, will explore Luke 10:1-4a with us via video. She will help us approach the text by way of Midrash, the Jewish form of Scripture interpretation. Midrash opens up an ongoing conversation with the text which is unencumbered by the need to find the right answer, get everything ‘to fit’ or avoid the tensions and questions in the passage. We have begun to wrestle or Midrash the text with the practice of dwelling that we experienced as a community last week. Today, we’ll dig around the first four verses (1-4a) of the passage you read, Luke 10:1-12, pondering and engaging with its context and ours, inviting the Spirit to help us explore and participate in God’s story and-- its’ implications as we seek to be a community bearing witness to ‘The Kingdom of God come near’ right where we live (Luke 10:9, 11).