Flyover: Part 3 - St. Patrick's Day & The Gospel of Luke

1. OPENING PRAYER
God of suffering and glory,
in Jesus Christ you reveal
the way of life as you lead us,
and as we follow you.
Inscribe your law in our hearts,
that in life we may not stray from you,
but may be your people.
Amen.

2. SUNDAY, MARCH 17
5th Sunday of Lent

4. TRUTH PRIORITIES IN CHRISTIANITY
2. DOGMA
Historic orthodox
Christianity
3. DOCTRINE
Interpreting
Christian dogma
4. OPINION
Where we’re
free to disagree
2
3
4
1
1. JESUS
Our ultimate
source of life

5. WHEN STUDYING THE BIBLE
CONTEXT drives us to ask:
• WHO wrote it? Luke; Cyrene/North Afr.?
• WHO to? Theophilus; likely his patron
• WHAT was happening?
• HOW did their culture/history
impact the author/audience?
• WHEN was it written? @ 62 CE
• HOW does the intended purpose
impact our reading?
GOSPEL OF
LUKE/ACTS

6. Many have undertaken to draw up
an account of the things that have been
fulfilled among us, just as they were
handed down to us by those who from the
first were eyewitnesses and servants of the
word. With this in mind, since
I myself have carefully investigated
everything from the beginning, I too
decided to write an orderly account
for you, most excellent Theophilus,
so that you may know the certainty
of the things you have been taught.
LUKE
1:1-4

7. In my former book, Theophilus, I wrote
about all that Jesus began to do and
to teach until the day he was taken
up to heaven, after giving instructions
through the Holy Spirit to the apostles
he had chosen. After his suffering,
he presented himself to them and gave
many convincing proofs that he was alive.
He appeared to them over a period
of forty days and spoke about
the kingdom of God.
ACTS
1:1-3

8. CENTRAL THEMES
• New creation begins in Jesus
• Holy Spirit Mk: 6x; Mt: 12x; L/A: 60x
• Redemption*
• Salvation* on multiple levels
o Cultural division
o Economic oppression
o Gender inclusion
o Physical/spiritual health
o Social division
HELPFUL
INFO

9. CENTRAL THEMES
• Continuation/culmination
o Israel
o Humanity
• The Great Reversal TGR
o Cultural division
o Economic oppression
o Gender inclusion
o Physical/spiritual health
o Social division
HELPFUL
INFO

10. The Wicked Tenants
(Matthew 21; Luke 20)
The Prodigal Son
(Luke 15)

11. UNIQUELY IN LUKE
• Genealogy back to Adam Begins earlier…
• Info about Jesus’ infancy/youth
• Marth and Mary at Jesus’ feet
• The ten lepers
• Jesus predicting the
destruction of Jerusalem
• Trial before Herod
• Road to Emmaus
• Apparition in Jerusalem
• Jesus’ ascension Ends later…

12. UNIQUELY IN LUKE
• The Good Samaritan
• Late-arriving neighbor
• The Foolish Rich Man
• The Unfaithful Steward
• Lazarus & the Rich Man
• The Unjust Judge
• “Blessed are the poor, …”
• Inclusion of “woes”
• Longest book in NT;
most by a single author

13. THE GREAT REVERSAL TGR
• 1:24, 26, 52-53, 71-73
• 2:8-9, 29-31, 36-38
• 3:10-14, 38
• 4:18-19, 26-28, 35
• 5:12-13, 24-25, 27-28, 32
• 6:20, 24-27, 35
• 7:9, 15, 22, 28, 30, 48
• 8:20-21, 24, 49-50
• 9:6, 17, 21, 42, 48, 5
• 10:21, 33, 39
• 11:2

14. • 12:15
• 13:1-2, 10-13, 17, 28-29
• 14:4, 8-11, 13, 23-24
• 15 (basically the whole chapter!)
• 16:13-14, 19-31
• 17:1-4, 15
• 18:13-14, 16-17, 23-27,
40-43
• 19:5, 9, 45-46
• 20:2, 45-47
• 21:1-4
THE GREAT REVERSAL TGR

15. • 22:19-20, 25-27, 49-51
• 23:32-34, 43
• 24:1-2, 40-43
THE GREAT REVERSAL TGR

16. PREJUDICE/EXCLUSION
Pagans
"God Fearing"
Gentiles
Samaritans
Hellenistic Jews
Galileans
Jerusalem
& Judea
Birthplace/
starts public
ministry

17. Pagans
"God Fearing"
Gentiles
Samaritans
Hellenistic Jews
Galileans
Jerusalem
& Judea
PREJUDICE/EXCLUSION
Birthplace/
starts public
ministry
(Acts 6)

18. In those days when the number
of disciples was increasing,
the Hellenistic Jews among them
complained against the Hebraic
Jews because their widows were
being overlooked in the daily
distribution of food.
ACTS
6:1

19. Pagans
"God Fearing"
Gentiles
Samaritans
Hellenistic Jews
Galileans
Jerusalem
& Judea
PREJUDICE/EXCLUSION
Birthplace/
starts public
ministry
Samaria;
Good
Samaritan
(Acts 6)

20. Pagans
"God Fearing"
Gentiles
Samaritans
Hellenistic Jews
Galileans
Jerusalem
& Judea
PREJUDICE/EXCLUSION
Birthplace/
starts public
ministry
Samaria;
Good
Samaritan
(Acts 6)
Luke 13:29-30

21. People will come from east and west and
north and south, and will take
their places at the feast in the kingdom
of God. Indeed there are those who
are last who will be first, and first
who will be last. LUKE
13:29-30

22. Pagans
"God Fearing"
Gentiles
Samaritans
Hellenistic Jews
Galileans
Jerusalem
& Judea
PREJUDICE/EXCLUSION
Birthplace/
starts public
ministry
Samaria;
Good
Samaritan
(Acts 6)
(Acts 17)
Luke 13:29-30

23. People of Athens! I see that
in every way you are very religious.
For as I walked around and looked
carefully at your objects of worship,
I even found an altar with this
inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD.
So you are ignorant of the very
thing you worship—and this is
what I am going to proclaim to you.
ACTS
17:22-23

24. CENTRAL THEMES
• New creation begins in Jesus
• Redemption*
• Holy Spirit Mk: 6x; Mt: 12x; L/A: 60x
• Salvation* on multiple levels
o Cultural division
o Economic oppression
o Gender inclusion
o Physical/spiritual health
o Social division
• Culmination/continuation
• The Great Reversal
HELPFUL
HIGHLIGHTS

25. “Our drug of choice right now
is knowing who we’re better than.”
NADIA
BOLZ-WEBER

26. “The idea (of redemptive violence)
baked into some branches
of Christianity, that…God
is responsible for the violence
towards people we don’t like
(in the form of floods,
hurricanes, wars, etc.,
in order) to punish
them…is not of God.”

27. “They are projections of natural
and human violence on to God.
These are our ideas of what we
think a God should be, what we
want a God to be. We want
a God who shows the
bad people who is right.
And, of course, we want
to be the good people
(and see ourselves
as such.)”

28. Pagans
"God Fearing"
Gentiles
Samaritans
Hellenistic Jews
Galileans
Jerusalem
& Judea
PREJUDICE/EXCLUSION
Birthplace/
starts public
ministry
Samaria;
Good
Samaritan
(Acts 6)
(Acts 17)
Luke 13:29-30

29. May the Strength of God pilot us.
May the Power of God preserve us.
May the Wisdom of God instruct us.
May the Hand of God protect us.
May the Way of God direct us.
May the Shield of God defend us.
May the Host of God guard us
Against the snares of the evil ones,
Against temptations of the world.
CLOSING PRAYER

30. May Christ be with us!
May Christ be before us!
May Christ be in us,
Christ be over all!
May your salvation, Lord,
Surround us, and all you have made,
This day, O Lord,
and evermore.
Amen.
CLOSING PRAYER