“Level Headed”
The reading this week is challenging on several levels (pun intended). Read over Luke 6:17-27 several times. If your mind wanders while reading it, let it! Then, explore where your mind took you.
Don’t judge your thoughts, questions, or concerns. We’ll talk more about approaches to interpretation during our time together.
Then, click on the “Video Link” and watch Jim Carrey’s Award Presentation. What, if any, connection is there between this week’s reading and the video?
I look forward to what promises to be a rich and potentially life-transforming discussion. (For those of you participating by Zoom, the link is below the reading)
Luke 6:17-27
17 He came down with them and stood on a level place, with a great crowd of his disciples and a great multitude of people from all Judea, Jerusalem, and the coast of Tyre and Sidon. 18They had come to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and those who were troubled with unclean spirits were cured. 19And all in the crowd were trying to touch him, for power came out from him and healed all of them.
20 Then he looked up at his disciples and said:
‘Blessed are you who are poor,
for yours is the kingdom of God.
21 ‘Blessed are you who are hungry now,
for you will be filled.
‘Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.
22 ‘Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. 23Rejoice on that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets.
24 ‘But woe to you who are rich,
for you have received your consolation.
25 ‘Woe to you who are full now,
for you will be hungry.
‘Woe to you who are laughing now,
for you will mourn and weep.
26 ‘Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets.
27 ‘But I say to you that listen, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you . . .
Link for Men’s Bible Study at 7:30 a.m. Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85610681954?pwd=lbwwfzdUbAtlK7OVMswSP8uDvRsyA2.1
Meeting ID: 856 1068 1954
Passcode: 200461
Link for Women’s Bible Study at 10:30 a.m. Zoom Meeting
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83582289022?pwd=F0kOsaeGRTTnaoaL12rx7rIzjy89nJ.1
Meeting ID: 835 8228 9022
Passcode: 130287