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ProudDog
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| 06/02/2008 9:05 AM |
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| Welcome to the Bible study forum. This week we're exploring Jesus love for those who were outcast from society for various reasons. Take a look at Restoring
love and Outcast and join the discussion! |
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-Kirk Moore |
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kate huey
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| 06/03/2008 3:16 PM |
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| This is one of the most moving stories in the Gospels, especially for anyone who has ever felt that they were on the margins. Many scholars say that Jesus not only would have healed the woman with the hemorrhage, but also would have restored her to the community. Before then, she would have been living on the margins. I love to think about what was going through her head and heart when she heard about Jesus. Many of the characters in the Gospels seem to appear suddenly, but they come to Jesus very intentionally. And then they go away again, but we have to assume their lives were dramatically different.
Matthew, of course, became one of the inner circle of Jesus' disciples (he went from the margins to one kind of insider status, but as a group they were definitely outsiders). The woman was restored to health and community, and the little girl's restoration was the most astonishing of all: she came back from death to her family, her community, her life. Wouldn't it be interesting to know where they all three went from there? Where have we gone "from there," after an encounter with Jesus? |
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subear
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| 06/06/2008 7:26 PM |
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Kate asks how we think of faith. I think of faith as a Knowing form of trust in the primacy of Divine order moving, in, through and as Life. The Life in which I find myself. The Life of which I am living. And I suppose (to be honest) my faith is trust in the beliefs that I have come to depend on. It's really quite delicate, but strong, at the same time.
In Love,
Susannah |
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"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience. We are spiritual beings having a human experience." Pierre Teilhard de Chardin |
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kate huey
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| 06/08/2008 10:52 PM |
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| This morning I was privileged to hear a wonderful sermon on this text by Jill Edens, co-pastor (with her husband Rick) of United Church of Chapel Hill. She focused on the "sinners" with whom Jesus ate, and she shifted our thinking from "our" responsibility to be more like Jesus and eat with sinners - a bit of a jolt, until she reminded us eloquently that WE are the sinners with whom Jesus eats! Thank God there is a place at the table for each of us, no matter what. That's what the church is, at its best - that place where all of us are welcome at the table, no matter who we are or where we are on life's journey... |
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