It's Complicated
They asked Jesus to pick one: Caesar or God. He handed them both and let them carry that home. Every follower of Jesus since has lived with two citizenships in one life: laws to keep, strangers to welcome, leaders to pray for, including the ones we'd rather not. Terry closes out this stretch of Luke 20 with Babylon, a Roman jail in Philippi, and a list of church rules that never made it into the Bible. What do you do when your obligations don't line up in neat columns? And whose side are you really on?
Series Information
Terry proclaims the one Gospel through the history, research, rememberings and faith expressed in the text of the Gospel According to Luke. Jesus himself is the good news expressed by Luke. Beginning with the birth narratives unique to Luke's presentation, the good news of the Kingdom explodes into faithful view as each account, teaching, parable and event lived out and offered by Jesus, the Messiah-King, is examined the way Luke seemingly examined Jesus in his own work. Here we find a Jesus to love, a Jesus to follow, and ultimately a Jesus to worship.