The Good Samaritan
We’ve been going through Luke in our weekly public meetings this semester, and I its been weird coming to classic ‘Sunday School’ passages like the Parable of the Sowers or The Good Samaritan (which I’m preaching on this Friday) and realising how rarely I’ve heard them really wrestled with.
Take the Samaritan parable: its appealed to regularly as a reason to break ethnic divisions in the name of mercy, which I can see from th text, but then I find a more obvious thread of condemnation of the empty legalism of those like the lawyer asking the question, and (I think) the priest and Levite in the parable. These are connected I’m sure, but it’s been difficult boiling it down to the ‘single sentence’ I’ve been brought up to seek in my talks. This led me to read a bit more widely than usual, and there is such a diversity in opinion on the passage and have been very disappointed with the platitudes that fill the commentaries I’ve been able to read.
How do others go about preaching well-known passages with so many interpretations?
Posted: Apr 29, 08:52 PM Category: CF weekly meetings
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