The Heart of Ministry Luke 102537 Hear O Israel The Lord is our God the Lord alone You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might ID: 140782
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The Prime Directive
The Heart of Ministry. Luke 10:25-37
‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord is our God, the Lord alone. You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your might.’Deuteronomy 6:4-5
‘you shall love your neighbour as yourself.’Leviticus 19:18
‘You
shall not hate in your heart anyone of your kin; you shall reprove your neighbour, or you will incur guilt yourself.
You
shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against any of your people, but you shall love your neighbour as yourself: I am the Lord
.’
Leviticus 19:17-18Slide2
Interpreting ParablesSlide3
Literary Structure: ParallelsRobbers
A – ‘fell among robbers’ (30)B – ‘stripped him and beat him’ (30)C – ‘departed leaving him half dead’ (30)
SamaritanA’ – ‘set him on his own beast and brought him to an inn and took care of him’ (34)
B’ – ‘Bound up his wounds, pouring on oil and wine’ (34)C’ – ‘went to him’ (33)Slide4
Literary Structure: PlotPlot
Oops!Ugh!Aha!Weee!Yeah!
Parable Man falls among thieves (30).
What they do to the man and those who pass by (30-32). Samaritan comes (33). Bandages wounds (34).
Leaves him at inn with promise of return (35).
Upsetting equilibrium.
Drawing listener in.
A surprise element, reversal.
Resolution and release.
Conclusion, pointing to future.Slide5
Interpretation: PerspectivesPowerful
Identify with priest and Levite.Decry robbers.Issue is purity.Samaritan is impure.Inn is a fearful place.
PeasantIdentify with robbers.Idolise robbers.
Issue is status.Samaritan is foolish.Inn is a risky place.
‘Which of these three, do you think, was a neighbour to the man who fell in the hands of robbers?’Slide6
Interpretation: PerspectivesPresent
What retelling of the parable would make sense for you, in your context?Slide7
The Prime Directive
The Heart of Ministry. Luke 10:25-37Slide8
Prime Directive
Love GodLove NeighbourLove Self
energises
restrains
enablesSlide9
Who will you be?
‘I will love the Lord my God with all my heart, and with all my soul, and with all my strength, and with all my mind; and my neighbour as myself.’