Living love in hopeless times
Proper 24C | Luke 18:1-8
Jesus tells a story about a persistent widow and an unjust judge, inviting us to compare that to the generosity of God. Just what we need: a bunch of church people being told they need to complain more. I don’t like that anthem. So I’m going to do what Jesus says to do and to annoy the heck out of the priest and the organist until they stop using it. Thanks, Jesus. That is some really helpful teaching.
This is sort of how it reads, isn’t it? That the lesson is about just pushing and pushing until you get your way. But that doesn’t sound like a particularly Jesusy teaching, does it? It isn’t a Christlike virtue: to bully people into agreeing with us? Isn’t something missing? Heck, it doesn’t even sound loving, and that alone should ring the alarm.
One clue we have to the something deeper comes in the last line of the text: keep reading
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