January 31, 2010
Posted January 31st, 2010 by fr. greg
Luke 4:21-30
Why would anyone want to throw Jesus off a cliff? At the beginning of his ministry, Jesus reads from Isaiah 61 (”The Spirit of the Lord is upon me”) in his hometown, claiming: “today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing”! People seem receptive at first but soon it becomes clear that there is something deeply disturbing about what Jesus is saying. How might our own familiarity with Jesus sometimes get in the way of our being challenged by the truth of God? What is it that we need to know about God’s love to keep us from joining in with this angry mob?