Comments on: The Unlimitable Gift (A Sermon for Epiphany) http://jeffreygang.com/2010/02/02/the-unlimitable-gift-a-sermon-for-epiphany/ Sat, 25 Feb 2012 03:54:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Austin http://jeffreygang.com/2010/02/02/the-unlimitable-gift-a-sermon-for-epiphany/comment-page-1/#comment-119 Austin Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:22:22 +0000 http://jeffreygang.com/?p=535#comment-119 I love this stuff. If you've never seen Campolo in The Ordinary Radicals or Another World is Possible, you've gotta check them out. I love this stuff. If you’ve never seen Campolo in The Ordinary Radicals or Another World is Possible, you’ve gotta check them out.

]]> By: Glenn http://jeffreygang.com/2010/02/02/the-unlimitable-gift-a-sermon-for-epiphany/comment-page-1/#comment-116 Glenn Wed, 03 Feb 2010 21:00:06 +0000 http://jeffreygang.com/?p=535#comment-116 One thing I find odd about this encounter is that Jesus responds rather provocatively I think to the synagogue's initial "amazement". It seems disproportionate to their actual expressions. It's no wonder they got upset. Although the account itself offers a confusing portrait of the people--they are amazed and spoke well of him but also remarked about his plainness and humbleness of origin (being just like they are), or in other words, couldn't believe he would be the messiah because of that. But what's more is, just a chapter or two before, we've read the hymn/prayer by the priest in the Temple (at Jesus' circumcision) who states his belief that this child Jesus would inherit the throne of David, which Jesus obviously did not do. So the gospel writer himself offers a rather confusing portrait of Jesus; who he was and what he would do. One thing I find odd about this encounter is that Jesus responds rather provocatively I think to the synagogue’s initial “amazement”. It seems disproportionate to their actual expressions. It’s no wonder they got upset. Although the account itself offers a confusing portrait of the people–they are amazed and spoke well of him but also remarked about his plainness and humbleness of origin (being just like they are), or in other words, couldn’t believe he would be the messiah because of that.

But what’s more is, just a chapter or two before, we’ve read the hymn/prayer by the priest in the Temple (at Jesus’ circumcision) who states his belief that this child Jesus would inherit the throne of David, which Jesus obviously did not do. So the gospel writer himself offers a rather confusing portrait of Jesus; who he was and what he would do.

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