GOSPEL OF LUKE Savior of the world, Christ of the marginalized

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GOSPEL OF LUKE Savior of the world,Christ of
the marginalized

• Week 4 LUKE
• September 12, 2007

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HISTORICAL WORLD

• AUTHOR LUKE
• DATE AD 70-85 (?)
• FIRST PART OF TWO-VOLUME WORK

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LITERARY WORLD

• APOLOGY (DEFENSE)
• SALVATION HISTORY
• AGE OF FATHER, SON, SPIRIT
• ARRANGED AROUND JESUS JOURNEYS
• TO GALILEE
• THROUGH GALILEE TO JERUSALEM
• GOOD SAMARITAN
• ROAD TO EMMAUS
• ACTS FROM JERUSALEM TO ROME

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GOAL OF THE GOSPEL

• FULFILLMENT (11)
• Among us
• WITNESS (12)
• CERTAINTY (14)

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CHAPTERS 1-2 RESTORATION THEME

• Elijah return (Mal 31-3 Lk 1)
• Davidic Messiah (Isa 11 Lk )
• Consolation of Israel (Isa 52 Lk 2)
• Etc.

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KEY THEMES

• UNIVERSALISM
• SOCIAL JUSTICE FOR OPPRESSED
• COMPASSION FOR OUTCASTS
• CENTRAL ROLE OF WOMEN
• HOLY SPIRIT
• PRAYER
• ROLE REVERSAL / EQUALITY

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CONNECTION WITH MARK

• MARK FORCES US TO BEGIN WITH GOD, NOT OURSELVES
• MATTHEW FORCES US TO VIEW OURSELVES AS
  INSTRUMENTS OF GOD
• THE GOD WHO IS AS WORK (MARK) HAS CHOSEN TO WORK
  THROUGH US!